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 October 2nd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Oct 2 (6pm)

Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)

Lady Isabella, aspires to be in the spotlight, and local talent show 'Stately Stars' provides her a break. However, high pressures and a loss of self lead to a surreal situation on her grand estate.

Oct 2 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

K2's first winter ascent claimed 5 lives, revealing modern alpinism's struggles with commercialization, social media impact, and conflicts between marginalized climbers and traditional elites.

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.

Oct 2 (7:10pm), Oct 3 (7:10pm with Actor Conor Leslie)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

After spending two blissful weeks together, Hannah and Archie confront the distance, doubts, and their own insecurities to see if their relationship can go the distance.

Oct 2 (6:30pm), Oct 3 (6:30pm), Oct 4 (1:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Leonard Peltier, an activist jailed for decades after a disputed conviction, faces his twilight years as a new generation fights for his release from prison before it's too late.

Oct 2 (7pm), Oct 3 (6pm), Oct 4 (3pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette 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.

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.

Oct 3 (1pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule.

Oct 3 (3pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

In the farmlands of the Salinas Valley in California, successive generations of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, are destined to reenact the fateful story of Cain and Abel.

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.

Oct 3 (6:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

An ode to movie culture and its beguiling hold on our imagination, modeled on an actual legal deposition, and accompanied by a procession of 35mm publicity stills from studio press kits.

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...

Oct 4 (4:15pm)

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

Follows Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, who embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children after his wife dies, confronting forces closing in and beliefs threatening to unravel.

Oct 4 (6pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A lonely gay hairdresser picks up a beautiful, seemingly mute skinhead in a park, takes him home, puts him in the bathtub and promptly becomes obsessed with him.

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.

Oct 5 (6:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A biracial bride-to-be seeking a connection with her charismatic hippie mother uses her wedding plans to manipulate everyone in her orbit.

Oct 6 (6:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

An immigrant Romanian family living in Norway is subject to an investigation and faces the scrutiny of the local judicial system.

Oct 6 (7:10pm), Octo 8 (7:10pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

A young sheriff's deputy finds himself in the crosshairs of dangerous criminals when the dead body he is assigned to keep an eye on disappears from a crime scene.

Oct 7 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

An intimate, career-spanning portrait of Ukrainian immigrant Eugene Hütz, chronicling his childhood journey to the U.S., his rise to fame with immigrant punk band Gogol Bordello and his defiant return to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

Oct 8 (7pm)

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

90-minute Brooklyn fever dream — part film, part immersive experience, part memory brought to life.

Oct 8 (7pm)

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

A collective project with students at a junior high school in a Paris suburb, about friendship, emancipation, trust, and the act of filmmaking for a generation raised by selfies and YouTube.

Oct 8 (7pm), Oct 9 (7pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Explores all the major psychedelics, not just by explaining how they work medicinally, but by taking viewers inside dosing rooms for extremely rare looks at the remarkable power, emotion, and speed of psychedelic healing in action.

Oct 8 (6pm, 6:30pm), Oct 10 (4:15pm, 5pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A thorough and unvarnished analysis of Elon Musk, a technology billionaire who serves as the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter.

Oct 9 (8:45pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

In 1870s Wisconsin, a sheriff faces a deadly threat, forcing him to choose between his family and defending the community that gave him a second chance.

Oct 9 (7pm), Oct 10 (7pm), Oct 11 (2:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

When 41 girls are killed in a Guatemalan 'Safe Home' and no one is held accountable, two young sisters lead a luminous rebellion. They take to the streets using art, joy and performance to unite their community against gender violence.

Oct 10 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

In Tapoleng, a forgotten town, the church once sheltered residents from apartheid. Now, a new faith takes root, bringing fresh spiritual practices and community empowerment.

Oct 10 (7pm)

AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)

Two Scottish lads from Dundee conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo, bagging a record deal and appearing on MTV until their scam unraveled.

Oct 11 (2:15pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, 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.

Oct 12 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Desperate for companionship on a post apocalyptic Halloween night, the Last Girl on Earth gets more than she bargained for, when something far more sinister arrives on her doorstep.

Oct 14 (6:45pm)

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

Timid dork Edie makes waves when she starts a punk band with her fellow "turds," becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her Catholic school while pissing off the hot girls, the nuns, and the horniest altar boy you've ever seen.

Oct 14 (7pm)

Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)

When married 50-something Rachel RSVPs and sends a gift way too quickly to an acquaintance's wedding, this seemingly insignificant faux pas snowballs into a series of misunderstandings that threaten to destroy two marriages at once.

Oct 15 (7:55pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Explores what it means to be gay throughout different eras, focusing on "three existences" that are connected through themes of sexuality, desire, pain, and inheritance.

Oct 15 (7pm), Oct 16 (6pm, 7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A decade post-death, filmmaker William Greaves reveals his final work: footage of a 1972 gathering he arranged with Harlem Renaissance legends, which he deemed his most significant capture.

Oct 16 (7:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Black and white vignettes document daily political life in the United States from 2017 to 2020.

Oct 16 (6:40pm), Oct 17 (2:30pm), Oct 18 (6:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Female artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers are settled in Paris between the wars.

Oct 16 (7pm), Oct 17 (2pm, 7pm), Oct 18 (7:30pm), Oct 21 (7pm), Oct 22 (8:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

This poetic film follows director Marialuisa's journey with Anita and Leticia, Central American women traveling with the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants.

Oct 18 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Ronald Reagan's America sets the stage for Mario Cuomo, the son of Italian immigrants who rose to become Governor of New York and, in his defining 1984 DNC speech, offered a powerful vision of leadership rooted in compassion.

Oct 19 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In small-town Poland in the late 1950s, an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. Framed around this story, lead actress Krystyna Janda discusses the death of her husband from cancer.

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.

Oct 20 (7pm)

Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)

A haunting yet life-affirming film about trauma, resilience, and the radical power of choice. A grieving mother forms a bond with psychologist Dr. Edith Eger, a bestselling author whose therapy practice transforms pain into the possibility of freedom.

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.

Oct 22 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.

Oct 23 (7pm), Oct 24 (7pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Tina Cordova leads the fight for justice for majority Indigenous and Latino Nuevomexicano communities in New Mexico. Locals have suffered for decades as a result of radiation produced by the world's first atomic attack at Trinity.

Oct 23 (8:30pm), Oct 24 (6:30pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

At the height of the Cold War, Fatherland centers on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika—actress, writer and rally driver—as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a Germany in ruins.

Oct 24 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art ()

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.

Oct 24 (9:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

The story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that won't die.

Oct 30 (7:20pm), Oct 31 (3pm, 5:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A Palestinian American activist's murder in Southern California sparks a 40-year search for justice, exposing the origins of a modern political movement's dangerous ideology.

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.

Nov 7 (3pm)

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

After Yang: In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.

Verse: Seventeen year-old Adam is forced to confront where his virtual persona ends and his real self begins when he decides to finally meet his VR girlfriend in real life.

Nov 19 (6pm), Nov 20 (7:30pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence unravels when professional crises, global chaos, and marital betrayal converge, pushing him toward a dangerous breaking point.

Nov 20 (7pm), Nov 22 (3pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Eight friends struggle to hold on to their group as they reach their mid-thirties. Growing up is hard, staying close is harder.

Dec 6 (1pm)

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

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.