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 14th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
The Rivals of Amziah King - Q&A with Actors Owen Teague & Jake Horowitz
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.
Mysterious Skin - Q&A with Director Gregg Araki
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.
Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut - Q&A with Writer/Director Todd Stephens, Producer Karen Jaroneski
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.
Memory of Princess Mumbi - Q&A with Director Damien Hauser
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.
The Bend in the River - Q&A with Director Robb Moss
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.
Union County - Q&A with Director Adam Meeks, Actors Will Poulter & Annette Deao
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.
The Last Picture Shows - Q&A with Director Rustin Thompson
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.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Aug 15 (1:45pm SOLD OUT)
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.
Veins - Q&A with Writer/Director Raymond St-Jean
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.
Never After Dark - Q&A with Writer/Director Dave Boyle
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.
Wild Inside - Q&A with Producer Gabriel Sedgwick
Aug 15 (6:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, 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.
Dead Souls - Q&A with Writer/Director Alex Cox
Aug 15 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In 1890 - the year of the U.S. census - chaos erupts when a man named Strindler arrives in a town in Arizona and requests money for providing the names of dead Mexican laborers.
Sudden Fury - Q&A with Writer/Director Brian Damude
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.
The Trek - Q&A with Director Meekaaeel Adam
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.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - Q&A with Writer/Director John McNaughton
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.
Superbuhei - Q&A with Writer/Director Josef Brandl
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.
54 - Q&A with Writer/Director Mark Christopher
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.
Wendigo - Q&A with Writer/Director Larry Fessenden
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.
Jerusalem '67 - Q&A with Producer Joseph Schick
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.
Bodyhackers - Q&A with Writer/Director Carlos Conceição, Actor McCaul Lombardi
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.
The Threshing - Q&A with Writer/Director Sean Mannion, Actress Simone Grossman
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.
Trees Lounge - Q&A with Actor/Writer/Director Steve Buscemi
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".
How to Divorce During the War - Q&A with Director Andrius Blaževicius
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.
A Bright Future - Q&A with Director Lucía Garibaldi
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.
Learning to Fly - Q&A with Director Max Lowe, film subject Aisha McAdams, Producer Evan Hayes
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.
Lockjaw - Q&A with Writer/Director Sabrina Greco, Actress Blu Hunt
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.
It Ends - Q&A with Director Alex Ullom
Aug 21 (7:10pm), Aug 22 (7:10pm), Aug 23 (4:55pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Friends on a late-night food run become trapped on an infinite highway with otherworldly terrors lurking beyond. Confined in their Jeep Cherokee, they must decide whether to accept their fate or attempt escape.
Dreams in Nightmares - Q&A with Writer/Director Shatara Michelle Ford and others
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.
To Use a Mountain - Q&A with Director Casey Carter
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.
How to Divorce During the War - Q&A with Director Andrius Blazevicius
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.
The Sun Never Sets - Q&A with Actors Dakota Fanning & Cory Michael Smith
Aug 22 (2:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A woman's relationship with her older, divorced boyfriend hits a rough patch just as her ex reappears in her life, leading to complicated emotions and messy entanglements in the Alaskan wilderness.
The Snare - Q&A with Writer/Director Merlin Camozzi, Actor Cassady McClincy Zhang
Aug 22 (6:20pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
When a high school student is arrested with a small amount of drugs, the police pressure her to become an informant - forcing her to choose between the people she most loves and the future she's worked so hard to create.
Idiots - Q&A with Actors Dave Franco & O'Shea Jackson
Aug 24 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Two rock-bottom drivers transport a wealthy teen to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails their plans.
Daylight - Q&A with Director Jon Kasbe
Aug 25 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Serving a life sentence, Joe Garcia finds an unexpected lifeline in the music of a pop superstar.
When We Saw Each Other More Often - Q&A with Writer/Director William Wrubel
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.
In the Family - Q&A with Writer/Director Patrick Wang
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.
Dreams in Nightmares - Q&A with Writer/Director Shatara Michelle Ford
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.
Come What May - Q&A with Co-Director/Co-Producer Lahna Turner, Comedian Rich Voz
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.
Lingua Franca - Intro with Director Isabel Sandoval
Aug 28 (4:30pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
An undocumented Filipina trans woman falls in love in Brooklyn.
Filipiñana - Q&A with Writer/Director/Editor Rafael Manuel
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.
The Cycle of Love - Q&A with Director Orlando von Einsiedel, film subjects PK Mahanandia & Lotta Mahanandia
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.
Boorman and the Devil - Q&A with Director David Kittredge
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.
The Room - Q&A with Actor Greg Sestero
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.
The Paper - Q&A with Director Ding Jiancheng
Sep 6 (4:45pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Centered on an elderly maker of paper effigies and the young boy drawn into his world, the film treats paper as both subject and method, drifting between literature and cinema, dream and reality, color and monochrome.
True North - Director Michèle Stephenson in-person
Sep 8 (7pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary on the 1969 Black student protests against racism at Montreal's Concordia University, highlighting their role in Black liberation movements.
The Stamp Thief - Q&A with Director Dan Sturman, Producers Gary Gilbert & Dylan Nelson
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.
Marie Antoinette - Q&A with Director Sofia Coppola
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.
9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero - Q&A with Director Josh Sabey
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.
Ernie & Emma - Q&A with Writer/Director Bruce Campbell
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.
Powwow People - Q&A with Director Sky Hopinka
Sep 11 (7pm), Sep 12 (7pm)
BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A cinematic invitation into the realm of Native American powwow culture.
On a String - Q&A with Actor/Writer/Director Isabel Hagen
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.
Hunting Yellow Pigs - Q&A with Directors Ming-I Huang and Jon Roberts
Sep 15 (6pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
With love instead of a PhD, one maverick educator shaped generations of young minds at his summer mathematics program - quietly powering American innovation and launching the careers of top scientists and creators now influencing millions.
White Nights - Q&A with Actress Isabella Rossellini
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?
Soul Patrol - Q&A with Director JM Harper
Sep 15 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Vietnam War's first Black special ops team reunites to share their untold story, revealing hidden military history and exploring whether confronting the past can heal old wounds.
Traces of Home - Q&A with Director Colette Ghunim, Executive Producer Melissa Barrera
Sep 16 (6:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Filmmaker Colette Ghunim takes her parents to find the ancestral homes in Mexico and Palestine that they had fled from decades earlier.
Last Train to Fortune - Q&A with Actors Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters, James Paxton
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.
Werewolf in a Women's Prison - Q&A with Director Jeff Leroy
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.
On a String - Q&A with Actor/Writer/Director Isabel Hagen
Sep 18 (7:30pm), Sep 19 (7:30pm), Sep 20 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty 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.
Tell Everyone - Q&A with Director Alli Haapasalo, Actress Marketta Tikkanen
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.