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 August 7th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

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 (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 (7pm), Aug 8 (7pm)

Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn)

A naive international student becomes a cam girl to make ends meet. Early humiliation gives way to success, but in a world where everybody is a commodity, the cost may be more than she can afford.

Aug 7 (6:35pm), Aug 8 (6:35pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Fleur and Julian fall madly in love and decide to get married in all countries where they, as two women, are allowed to do so. After only four marriages, their journey comes to a painful and unexpected halt.

Aug 7 (4pm, 6pm 8pm), Aug 8 (4pm, 6pm)

Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)

Ryan's wedding day becomes chaos when Rose, his college best friend and unrequited love, crashes the ceremony to come clean about her buried feelings. Rose's arrival forces Ryan to confront emotional baggage and unresolved tension of their past.

Aug 7 (7:35pm), Aug 8 (7:35pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

An underdog American team competes for first place at France's Mondial du Fromage: the Olympics of cheese.

Aug 7 (8:30pm SOLD OUT), Aug 8 (7:00pm)

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 (7:20pm), Aug 8 (7:20pm), Aug 9 (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 (6:50pm SOLD OUT, 7:50pm SOLD OUT), 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 (3:05pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a quiet queer icon, captivated readers everywhere with her accessible celebration of nature, dogs, and life itself.

Aug 9 (6pm)

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.

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 12 (7:15pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

Amziah King, beekeeper, musician, and anchor of his community, reunites with former foster daughter Kateri after many years apart, and fends off threats to his honey business.

Aug 12 (7:30pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)

Told through the personal accounts of residents, business owners, politicians, developers, and clergy, Changing Face of Harlem explores the development and transition of the historic Black community over a ten- year span. The film tackles the pressing issues of class and cultural preservation as the neighborhood struggles to change for the better.

Aug 12 (7pm, 8:15pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In 1978, Robb Moss was 28 years old, a former river guide in the Mountain West and dreaming of a career as a filmmaker. One fall, on a month-long Grand Canyon rafting adventure with a group of friends, he collected the footage of a glorious sun-drenched ode to youth and nature, to life lived, often without clothing, at the brink of the possible.

Aug 13 (6:30pm)

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

On a quest to prove his competency, an inert sound recordist finds himself inadvertently tangled in a nautical prophecy on the spectral island of Pincer Point.

Aug 13 (6:30pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

From peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.

Aug 13 (9pm)

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

Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she's been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.

Aug 13 (7pm SOLD OUT), Aug 14 (7pm SOLD OUT), Aug 15 (7pm), Aug 16 (2pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Assigned to a county-mandated drug court program, Cody Parsons embarks on the tenuous journey toward recovery amidst the opioid epidemic in rural Ohio.

Aug 13 (6:45pm)

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

A home birth turns terribly wrong when complications arise during a raging blizzard.

Aug 14 (6:30pm)

AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)

Amziah King, beekeeper, musician, and anchor of his community, reunites with former foster daughter Kateri after many years apart, and fends off threats to his honey business.

Aug 14 (7:15pm), Aug 15 (2:05pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.

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 14 (6:30pm), Aug 16 (6:30pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

In 2093, filmmaker Kuve visits Umata to document life after a war banned modern tech. Local filmmaker Mumbi challenges him to create without AI, leading him to discover beauty in life's simple moments.

Aug 14 (8:10pm), Aug 15 (6:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Following and filming friends for nearly fifty-years. THE BEND IN THE RIVER is an exploration of the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.

Aug 15 (11:30am)

New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

Filmmaker 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 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 15 (4pm)

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

Isabelle is stunned when she arrives home for the weekend to discover her father has been three days dead and buried. Weirdly, her mother cannot understand why she is upset.

Aug 15 (6:30pm)

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

A traveling psychic who helps lost souls cross over encounters a powerful entity at a remote house. While investigating its origins, she uncovers dark secrets and faces a deadly threat from an unexpected source.

Aug 15 (9:15pm)

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

After a terrible car accident, a man makes sure his wife dies as a result in order to get her inheritance, and will commit sabotage and murder so he can't get blamed for her death.

Aug 16 (3:45pm)

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

Starvation, suspicion and madness plague a group of 1846 settlers as they journey across the Kalahari under the eyes of two desert spirits.

Aug 16 (6:30pm)

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

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

Aug 16 (8:45pm)

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

Follows a recovering alcoholic who suspects he's being stalked by his own evil twin brother who is trying to assume his identity and take over his life.

Aug 16 (3pm), Aug 20 (9:30pm), Aug 23 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

The famous 1970s New York City nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.

Aug 17 (6:30pm)

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

The legend of the Wendigo, a beast from Indian folklore who is half-man, half-deer, and can change itself at will.

Aug 18 (7pm)

Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)

In Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, a woman leaves her family to serve her country, a peacemaker is thrust into combat, and paratroopers must fight a battle they never trained for.

Aug 18 (9:15pm)

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

A story about people who reinvent their ideals of perfection to incorporate a sensual attraction to surgically transformed bodies.

Aug 20 (6:30pm)

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

A young couple is searching for meaning and belonging and get absorbed into a tight-knit agricultural community whose ideals of sustainability and devotion start to take a disturbing physical toll.

Aug 20 (7pm SOLD OUT)

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

Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking".

Aug 21 (6:40pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Set in Vilnius in 2022, high-flying executive Marija chooses the worst moment to discuss divorce with husband Vytas - one day before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The couple navigates separation amid a refugee crisis.

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 (4pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Follows Aisha McAdams - a photographer, and once a competitive runner herself - as she embeds with ultra running's biggest names at the legendary Western States Endurance Run and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.

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 21 (7pm), Aug 22 (7pm), Aug 23 (4pm), Aug 27 (5:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Avenue, Manhattan)

A legal and environmental crisis unfolds across the expansive American interior, in a visceral journey through the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites for a sacrificial nuclear dumping ground.

Aug 22 (11:30am)

New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

Set in Vilnius in 2022, high-flying executive Marija chooses the worst moment to discuss divorce with husband Vytas - one day before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The couple navigates separation amid a refugee crisis.

Aug 25 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Flora leaves. Antonis gets left behind. Elit moves in. Benni and Caro can't seem to move on. In the classrooms, cafes, bars and train stations of an unnamed German city, the lives of several young people intersect.

Aug 26 (6pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

When his partner Cody dies in a car accident, Joey learns that their son, Chip, has been willed to Cody's sister. In his now solitary home life, Joey searches for a solution. The law is not on his side, but friends are.

Aug 26 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

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.

Aug 28 (4:30pm)

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

An undocumented Filipina trans woman falls in love in Brooklyn.

Aug 28 (7pm), Aug 29 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Teen Isabel's attraction to Dr. Palanca at her country club job turns dark as she uncovers violence beneath the club's facade and discovers their disturbing connection from the past.

Aug 28 (7:10pm), Aug 29 (7:10pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Documents the romantic journey of PK Mahanandia, a Delhi street artist who trekked 6,000 miles by bicycle in 1977, venturing across continents to reunite with the woman he loved.

Aug 28 (6:45pm), Aug 29 (6:45pm), Aug 30 (6:45pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

After directing Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was offered to direct The Exorcist II. The film became a massive failure, nearly ending his career. Years later, cast and filmmakers discuss its ambition and artistic value.

Sep 2 (7pm)

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

In San Francisco, an amiable banker's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when his deceitful bride-to-be embarks on a passionate affair with his best friend.

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 10 (6pm SOLD OUT)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Sep 11 (7:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

After the 9/11 attacks, no one could agree what should be done with Ground Zero. And so New York did something really crazy. They asked the people to decide.

Sep 11 (8:30pm), Sep 12 (8:30pm), Sep 13 (1pm), Sep 17 (8:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A Juilliard-trained violist navigates the New York City freelance classical musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the personal lives of strangers, all while living in her oddball family's NYC apartment.

Sep 11 (10pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

Widowed pear salesman Ernie Tyler travels to scatter his wife's ashes in places she specified, each location stirring memories that help him process their marriage, his work life, and his future.

Sep 15 (6:30pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?

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.

Oct 21 (7pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Amanda, confined to a remote asylum island, defies the bleak destiny society imposes on unwanted women.