Not many places around the entire world have filmmakers (directors, producers, actors and more) available in its backyard or that will travel to it quite like New York City. With more independent cinemas than anywhere else on top of that, NYC has the best moviegoing experiences in the world. Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from July 17th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Jul 17 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A dancer facing career decline returns home to meet her biological father. Raised by her lesbian mother through insemination, she navigates family complexities while bonding with elderly coworkers who help her find herself.

Jul 17 (6:45pm with Lou Diamond Phillips), Jul 18 (4:30pm, 7:15pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Luis Valdez elevates Chicano narratives to cinema through Zoot Suit and La Bamba, overcoming political and industry pushback to create landmark films that broaden and honor America's cultural story.

Jul 17 (6:45pm), Jul 18 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

An Italian woman named Holly is convinced she's the wrong version of herself until meeting a 7-year-old girl who changes her perspective.

Jul 17 (7:25pm)

Jul 18 (5:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Young Jerry and Annie as they chase Dead and Company's final 2023 tour in a questionable camper van, organizing their lives around the music with intensity.

Jul 17 (7pm), Jul 18 (7:30pm), Jul 19 (1pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Frustrated by what she was hearing on commercial radio, Sue Carpenter built a 40-watt FM station in 1995 and ran it out of her apartment in Los Angeles, exploiting a legal case that allowed hundreds of low-power illegal radio operators to proliferate throughout the country and gave birth to the legal LPFM movement.

Jul 18 (3pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)

Explores soccer through the lens of Black culture, community, and identity. As the excitement of the 2026 FIFA World Cup builds toward the Final, the film invites audiences into a timely conversation about history, representation, opportunity, and the future of the world's game in America.

Jul 18 (4:30pm)

New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

An actress falls for the anxious law school dropout babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.

Jul 18 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

As her mother Sandy grapples with an uncertain diagnosis, autistic 22-year-old Margarita must reluctantly grow up.

Jul 20 (6:30pm), Jul 23 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Set in the near future, Otone Komoto works as an architect. She is married to Kensuke Komoto, who runs a construction company. The married couple decide to welcome a humanoid robot into their home as their son.

Jul 20 (7pm), Jul 25 (4:30pm), Jul 26 (3:15pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

New York City, 1971. As Mei, Chris and Leonard trace differing paths through this melancholic vision of the Asian American Movement, collective paranoia rises as those around them begin to vanish without explanation.

Jul 21 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

Jul 21 (7pm)

Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)

A big city teenager moves to a small town where Rock and Roll music and dancing have been banned by backward local parents and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

Jul 21 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A prequel to Star Trek (1966), this series follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike.

Jul 21 (7:20pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.

Jul 22 (6:30pm, 10pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

In the backwoods of New Jersey, a young man navigates the serpentine mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home.

Jul 22 (7:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Set during the first quarter storm in the 1970s, policemen Homer, Conrad, and Billy are consumed by the murder case of troublemaking teenagers in the slums.

Jul 22 (9pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music.

Jul 23 (6pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

This documentary about the fight for safer streets and community-led change follows a grassroots campaign in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, after a beloved teacher was killed in a hit-and-run crash on a dangerous four-lane roadway.

Jul 23 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

When his sister asks him to look after her son, a radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his energetic nephew to show him life away from Los Angeles.

Jul 23 (8pm)

AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)

Set in the near future, Otone Komoto works as an architect. She is married to Kensuke Komoto, who runs a construction company. The married couple decide to welcome a humanoid robot into their home as their son.

Jul 24 (6pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In a repressive city-state, a tomboy schoolgirl persuades three classmates at an all-girls school to rebel by forming a triad gang.

Jul 24 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

A Life Illuminated follows renowned marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder as she embarks on an extraordinary journey into the magical world of deep sea bioluminescence.

Jul 24 (7:30pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Follows a wealthy New York City teenager who, eager to impress his activist crush, follows an online connection to Texas where he believes he can stop an act of extreme violence.

Jul 24 (7pm), Jul 25 (7pm), Jul 26 (2:40pm)

Across three decades, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family in Lebanon, or leave their home amid the country's unfolding tragedies.

Jul 26 (5:45pm), Aug 1 (5pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

From love and loss to identity and power, from disabilities to the echoes of childhood trauma to the scars of war, Glowing dares to confront what lies beneath. Yet even in its darkest moments, it refuses despair — illuminating flickers of resilience, liberation, and hope. In the face of the unknown... we burn brighter.

Jul 27 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A young gymnast, who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all.

Jul 28 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.

Jul 28 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Two years after his arranged marriage and emigration to the United States, a young husband returns to India to reunite with his wife, meet his baby son, and visit his family and in-laws before going back to New York City.

Jul 28 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

More than 200 years after George Washington described the United States' new system of democracy as the last great experiment in promoting human happiness in civil society, filmmakers Steve Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar check up on how that is unfolding for our indivisible Republic.

Jul 28 (9:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.

Jul 30 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Over a retrospective of Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric spoken word performance and music.

Jul 31 (7pm), Aug 1 (7pm)

BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Racial violence breaks out in a huge, black ghetto - triggered by a white woman living there with a black man.

Jul 31 (6:05pm), Aug 2 (2:40pm), Aug 3 (6:05pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.

Jul 31 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Out in the New Jersey suburbs, a teenage weed dealer succumbs to a series of misfortunes.

Jul 31 (6:30pm), Aug 1 (4pm, 6:30pm), Aug 2 (4pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.

Aug 1 (4:30pm)

New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a rollicking road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time.

Aug 1 (6pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte."

Aug 1 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

In a forgotten theater, a haunted man's past flickers back to life-forcing a final reckoning.

Aug 2 (4:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.

Aug 2 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Jimmy, is a narrative feature film imagining the young life of James Baldwin in Paris in 1948, newly arrived from New York.

Aug 3 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Macabee Cohen, whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes.

Aug 4 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A songwriter in love with his demanding boss's secretary enters an alternate, wacky world where a much-needed hit tune may be created from his heart.

Aug 5 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.

Aug 5 (8pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.

Aug 5 (9:30pm), Aug 6 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.

Aug 6 (7:15pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.

Aug 7 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.

Aug 7 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

It's Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling "Cookie Queen," navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.

Aug 7 (7:20pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving.

Aug 7 (9:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Intersecting stories unfold in the cyberpunk city of San Zokyo, where a young hacker takes on the corporation behind Meme, a drug that mines users' psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads.

Aug 7 (9:30pm), Aug 8 (7:45pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A director making a slasher sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film's 'final girl,' leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos.

Aug 7 (6:50pm, 7:50pm), Aug 9 (2:25pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger's forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.

Aug 9 (6:30pm)

Museum of Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

In 18th-century Vienna, court composer Antonio Salieri becomes awed and consumed by envy when the gifted, irreverent Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart bursts onto the imperial music scene.

Aug 11 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

Aug 11 (7pm), Aug 12 (7:15pm), Aug 13 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

Aug 12 (6:30pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

For Sterling, a sort of present-day Alice, the graveyard Lotus she redeems becomes a totem, a saturated phenomenon permitting her to move freely in time on a phantom road.

Aug 14 (7:10pm with Actress Sara Rue), Aug 15 (7:10pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.

Aug 15 (1:45pm)

New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

A madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and the Cote d'Azur.

Aug 21 (7pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Smart, inquisitive Elisa lands a job placement up North. Though it sounds perfect, there's one problem: nobody who goes there ever returns.

Aug 21 (7pm), Aug 22 (9:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Raina, trapped in a car accident, finds herself drawn to a manipulative magician, whose illusions mirror her dysfunction. Their relationship worsens, leading to a dark exploration of guilt, attraction, and fractured friendships.

Aug 21 (7:15pm), Aug 22 (7:15pm), Aug 23 (4:20pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Three friends in their mid-thirties as they road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.

Aug 26 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Come What May tells the full story of Ralphie May through the comics who stood beside him, the friends who knew him best, and the people who watched him burn bright at the center of comedy.

Sep 8 (7pm)

Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)

Seinfeld producer Gary Gilbert seeks to recover stamps stolen from victims of the Holocaust by a rogue Nazi officer. This real-life mission is part detective story, part heist film, and a small but powerful act of historical reckoning.

Sep 17 (7pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Follows Cecil Peachtree, a schoolteacher, and Dooley, an outlaw, as they strike a deal and develop an odd friendship along the road to Fortune after having to deal with gunfights, jailbreaks and saloon gals on the way.

Sep 17 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

When camping with her boyfriend, Sarah is attacked by a werewolf. She wakes up in a corrupt prison only to find out her boyfriend has been torn apart and she is the only suspect.