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 September 4th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
The Work in Progress - Q&A with Director Ian Cheney, Producers Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse & Elliot Krischner
Sep 4 (7pm), Sep 5 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows Americans engaging in face-to-face conversations about cultural, political, economic, and generational divisions across seven states.
Brailled It - Q&A with Directors David Grabias & Brendon Schulze
Sep 4 (7:40pm), Sep 5 (7:40pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Blind and low-vision kids take control of the cameras and capture their own experiences at the annual Braille Challenge - a weekend of high-pressure competition and raw coming-of-age moments.
Barbara Forever - Q&A with Director Brydie O'Connor
Sep 4 (7:45pm), Sep 5 (7:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
Chronovisor - Q&A with Directors Kevin Walker & Jack Auen
Sep 4 (6:15pm), Sep 5 (6:15pm), Sep 6 (3:45pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.
Wild Inside - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Sep 6 (12pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, 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.
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.
Shttl - Q&A with Writer/Director Ady Walter, Actor Moshe Lobel
Sep 6 (4:15pm), Sep 7 (2:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.
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.
Who Movies America - Q&A with Director Yael Bridge and others
Sep 9 (6:30pm), Sep 12 (6:55pm), Sep 13 (4:35pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
UPS Teamsters build solidarity among 340,000 workers as a strike deadline approaches. The film follows a new California driver, a 1997 strike veteran in New York, and a part-time Kentucky warehouse worker as they organize and picket.
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.
The Incomer - Q&A with Actor Domhnall Gleeson
Sep 10 (6:15pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.
The Fix - Intro with Actor Liam Neeson
Sep 10 (7pm)
AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)
Disillusioned by the end of the war in Afghanistan, a group of disgraced, war torn ex-CIA operators set out to Tehran to take down a life changing score.
Best of the Best - Q&A with Director Lena Khan, Writer/Producer Prashanth Venkataramanujam, Actors Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Priyanka Kedia, Hasan Minhaj, Ankur Rathee, & Chaneil Kular
Sep 10 (7pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A raucous comedy set in the cut-throat world of collegiate Bollywood dance competitions.
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.
Black Zombie - Q&A with Writer/Director Maya Annik Bedward
Sep 11 (7:15pm), Sep 12 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A journey through cinema and history reveals how zombies evolved from Haitian spiritual traditions into Hollywood horror, exploring their deeper cultural significance as powerful symbols of resilience.
The Condor Daughter - Q&A with Director Alvaro Olmos Torrico
Sep 11 (5:40pm, 8pm), Sep 12 (5:40pm, 8pm), Sep 13 (5:40pm, 8pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
A Bolivian Andean midwife's apprentice, bound by ancestral tradition, pursues her dream of becoming a singer in the city.
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.
The Big Scary 'S' Word - Q&A with Director Yael Bridge
Sep 13 (11:30am)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Historians, journalists and politicians reveal that, contrary to popular belief, socialism is in fact deeply American.
If I Go Will They Miss Me - Q&A with Writer/Director Walter Thompson-Hernandez
Sep 14 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In Watts, California, a 12-year-old boy attempts to connect with his distant father following his incarceration while sensing mysterious visions, from airplanes and Greek gods, that seem to follow him through his everyday world.
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, 7pm)
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.
Lemonade Blessing - Q&A with Writer/Director Chris Merola, Actor Jake Ryan
Sep 16 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Freshly tossed into a private Catholic high school by his devout mother, John falls for a devious classmate ready to push his faith (and morals) to the brink with a series of increasingly uncomfortable actions, all in the name of love.
The History of Concrete - Q&A with Director John Wilson
Sep 16 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A filmmaker applies lessons from a Hallmark movie writing workshop to pitch a documentary about concrete.
Last Train to Fortune
Q&A with Actors Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters, James Paxton, Laura Marano, Director Adam Rifkin
Sep 17 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Adam Rifkin, Actors Malcolm McDowell, James Paxton, Laura Marano
Sep 18 (6pm)
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.
Blades of the Guardians - Q&A with Director Yuen Woo-ping
Sep 17 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Dao Ma, a bounty hunter, takes a job to protect a man on the long road to the city of Chang'an. However, he discovers the person he is protecting is the empire's most wanted bounty, Zhi Shi Lang. Now, every greedy faction is after them.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Sep 17 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
New footage by Rushdie's wife shows his recovery path after the attack, capturing both physical healing and renewed hope. Based on his memoir "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
The Weight - Q&A with Actor Ethan Hawke
Sep 17 (9pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness.
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.
Checkout - Q&A with Writer/Director Jonathan Dekel, Actor Josh Pais
Sep 17 (7:45pm), Sep 19 (8:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Checkout shows a desperate Mossad spy who's forced to retire yet goes rogue so he can catch a legendary terrorist.
Left-Handed Girl - Q&A with Writer/Director Shih-Ching Tsou
Sep 18 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, each navigating the challenges of adapting to their new environment while striving to maintain family unity.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Q&A with Director Ang Lee, Yuen Woo-ping
Sep 18 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
House of Fish - Q&A with Director Santiago Burin des Roziers
Sep 18 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A conservation documentary led by Paolo's efforts to stop trawling (illegal, destructive fishing) through a radical approach: The installation of marble sculpted works of art that form an underwater museum.
My Brother's Wedding - Q&A with Director Charles Burnett
Sep 18 (6pm), Sep 19 (2:20pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and his brother's well to-do fiancée and is reluctant to be the best man at their wedding.
The Fisherman - Q&A with Writer/Director Zoey Martinson
Sep 18 (6:45pm), Sep 19 (6:45pm)
A Ghanaian fisherman teams up with a talking fish and a few companions for an adventure to Accra. They chase the dream of owning a boat while balancing the modern world and traditions.
Free Joan Little - Q&A with Director/Producer Yoruba Richen
Sep 18 (6pm), Sep 19 (8:30pm), Sep 20 (2:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A chronicle of a woman's courageous fight for survival, whose 1975 acquittal challenged injustice and inspired a nation to confront sexual violence and racism.
If I Go Will They Miss Me - Q&A with Writer/Director Walter Thompson-Hernandez
Sep 18 (7pm), Sep 19 (4pm, 7pm), Sep 20 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In Watts, California, a 12-year-old boy attempts to connect with his distant father following his incarceration while sensing mysterious visions, from airplanes and Greek gods, that seem to follow him through his everyday world.
Traces of Home - Q&A with Director Colette Ghunim
Sep 18 (7:15pm), Sep 19 (4:30pm, 7:20pm), Sep 20 (1pm, 3:45pm)
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.
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.
Women Laughing - Q&A with Directors Liza Donnelly & Kathleen Hughes
Sep 18 (7:30pm), Sep 19 (7pm), Sep 20 (1pm), Sep 22 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with a diverse group of remarkable women who create cartoons for the iconic magazine.
Pumping Iron - Q&A with Editor Geof Bartz
Sep 19 (4pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a household name.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait - Q&A with Cinematographer Darius Khondji
Sep 19 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Seventeen cameras capture the soccer match between Real Madrid and Villareal, played on April 23, 2005, from the perspective of French superstar Zinédine Zidane.
A Clockwork Orange - Q&A with Actor Malcolm McDowell
Sep 19 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.
Leonora in the Morning Light - Q&A with Writer/Directors Thor Klein & Lena Vurma
Sep 20 (3pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In 1930s Paris, rebellious painter Leonora Carrington joins surrealists Breton and Dalí. Her romance with Max Ernst forces her to face her inner struggles.
Wild Style - Intro with Director Charlie Ahearn
Sep 20 (8:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
Day Night Day Night - Q&A with Actress Luisa Colón (Williams)
Sep 21 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.
Wayne's World 2 - Q&A with Director Stephen Surjik
Sep 21 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend.
Take Me Home - Q&A with Director Liz Sargent
Sep 22 (7:45pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
Anna cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another's needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna's routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.
City Wide Fever - Q&A with Director Josh Heaps
Sep 23 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Film student Sam uncovers a hard drive chronicling forgotten Giallo director Saturnino Barresi's life. Investigating his disappearance, she's drawn into a violent conspiracy mirroring the horror films she loves.
Her Will Be done - Q&A with Director Julia Kowalski, Actress Roxane Mesquida
Sep 23 (9:30pm), Sep 25 (4:30pm), Sep 27 (5:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In a remote village, Nawojka grapples with dark urges she believes stem from an ancestral curse. Her world shifts when Sandra moves in next door, offering a glimpse of freedom from her family's rigid control.
The Scout - Q&A with Writer/Director Paula González-Nasser, Actress Mimi Davila
Sep 24 (7:45pm), Sep 25 (6:30pm), Sep 26 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A New York City location scout photographs the homes of strangers for a T.V. pilot, stepping into their private lives while trying to satisfy her erratic employers.
First They Came For My College - Q&A with Director Patrick Bresnan, Producer Harry W. Hanbury, and film participants Joshua Janniere & Amy Reid
Sep 25 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
When the Governor of Florida transforms a beloved public honors college in a political coup, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in a growing nation-wide assault on academic freedom.
A Break in the Rain - Q&A with Actors Michael O'Keefe & Elizabeth A. Davis
Sep 25 (7:10pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Jake Watson has been traveling for ten years since his wife died. After his son's death, he returns home and drives a limo to help his daughter-in-law. He meets singer Catriona Walsh and their two-week road trip helps them both heal.
Situations - Q&A with Writer/Director Greg Vrotsos
Sep 25 (7pm), Sep 26 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A Los Angeles based photographer navigates his way through a failing relationship.
Unzipped
Q&A with film subject Isaac Mizrahi, Director Douglas Keeve, EP Nina Santisi
Sep 25 (8pm), Sep 27 (3pm)
Q&A with film subject Isaac Mizrahi
Sep 26 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
One of the most successful designers in high fashion plans his fall 1994 collection. Follow the behind-the-scenes look at the creative side of fashion.
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus - Q&A with Cinematographer Bill Kirstein, Producer Albert Tholen
Sep 27 (5:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Ryuichi Sakamoto's last performance, a concert film featuring just him and his piano playing for the last time before passing away.
Dead Media - Q&A with Writer/Director Joseph Scrimshaw
Sep 27 (8pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
The story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that won't die.
Atonement - Q&A with Writer/Director Reed Van Dyk, Actor Boyd Holbrook
Oct 1 (7pm), Oct 2 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A troubled marine seeks to reconcile with the survivors of an Iraqi family he and his unit fired on back in 2003.
Bird in the Hand - Q&A with Writer/Director Melody C. Roscher
Oct 2 (7pm), Oct 4 (3pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A biracial bride-to-be seeking a connection with her charismatic hippie mother uses her wedding plans to manipulate everyone in her orbit.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Q&A with Composer Jang Young Gyu
Oct 3 (4:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.
The Wailing - Intro with Composer Jang Young Gyu
Oct 3 (7:50pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter...
Concessions - Q&A with Writer/Director Mas Bouzidi, Actors Josh Hamilton, Rob Riordan, Jonathan Lorenzo Price, & Lana Rockwell
Oct 4 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
On the last day at the closing Royal Alamo Cinema, employees, outcasts and oddballs cross paths in interwoven stories of rejection, redemption, and fate.
On a String - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Isabel Hagen
Oct 20 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, 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.
Testament - Q&A with Director Lynne Littman
Nov 7 (12:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.