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 30th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York - Q&A with Writer/Director Noah Segan, Actor John Turturro
Oct 30 (3:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
When a theft goes awry, a veteran pickpocket is sent on a mission through New York to reclaim it.
Queen at Sea - Q&A with Director Lance Hammer
Oct 30 (7:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
As dementia erodes a woman's ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interest, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection, and autonomy.
Nonfiction By Any Means Necessary - Q&A with Documentarian Tracii McGregor
Oct 30 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Joe Gotta Go - Coverage of historic mayoral race in Selma, Alabama in 2000.
The Forgotten Ones - Tells the story of Willie "Billy Brown" Smith, a spry elder Black man who spent nearly 40 years living on and off the streets of Hollywood, California.
Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers - Q&A with Director John Cunningham, Producer Ted Haynes, Editor Richard Lowe & Production Supervisor Caitlin Tartaro
Oct 30 (8:45pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary about Jimmy Buffett's 1970s Coral Reefer Band, their party lifestyle, and role in creating his sound.
Who Killed Alex Odeh? - Q&A with Co-Director Jason Osder
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.
Love Chaos Kin - Q&A with Director/Producer Chithra Jeyaram
Oct 30 (7pm), Nov 1 (3pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
An Indian immigrant mother helps her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.
The Scout - Q&A with Director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser, Producer Ryan Brown
Oct 31 (12:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th 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.
Yaniv - Q&A with Co-Writer/Directors Amnon Carmi & Ben Ducoff
Oct 31 (2:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
After funding is cut for the school musical, a high school teacher resolves to earn it back by cheating at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community.
The Shining - Q&A with Steadicam Inventor/Operator Garrett Brown
Nov 1 (12pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Aspiring author Jack Torrance must survive winter isolation at the Overlook Hotel, but writer's block and supernatural forces threaten his sanity, all while his psychic son Danny sees horrors that predict the family's violent unraveling.
My Undesirable Friends - Part II: Exile, Chapters 1-3 - Intro by EP Meryl Streep
Nov 1 (12:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows Russian journalists from TV Rain who fled their country after being labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime. Now scattered across Europe and beyond, they continue reporting on Ukraine despite espionage charges.
My Undesirable Friends - Part II: Exile, Chapters 4-5 - Q&A with Director Julia Loktev, subjects Ksenia Mironova & Elena Kostyuchenko
Nov 1 (4:20pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows Russian journalists from TV Rain who fled their country after being labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime. Now scattered across Europe and beyond, they continue reporting on Ukraine despite espionage charges.
Casino - Q&A with Co-Screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi
Nov 1 (6pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
Everest: The Other Side - Q&A with Director/Producer Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Nov 1 (7:10pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An intimate portrait of two people bound by love, ambition, and the pursuit of the impossible. Elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson fell deeply in love while reaching the pinnacle of their sport: Everest's north face.
Blue Heron - Q&A with Director Sophy Romvari
Nov 2 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A family of six moves into a new home on Vancouver Island, but the eldest son's disruptive behavior gradually throws their lives off balance.
Adult Supervision (Arkipelag) - Q&A with Director Alex Schulman
Nov 2 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
When a middle-aged man joins his 13-year-old daughter on a school trip in an attempt to repair their relationship, he soon finds himself caught up in conflicts that stir dark memories from his past.
Citizen Ruth - Q&A with Writer Jim Taylor
Nov 2 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.
Birds of War - Q&A with Directors Janay Boulos & Abd Alkader Habak
Nov 4 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
The love story of London-based Lebanese journalist and Syrian activist/cameraman as told through thirteen years of personal archives across revolutions, war and exile.
Dracula's Angel - Q&A with Director Bryan Beasley
Nov 4 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Laura Randolph is on a quest to find her true love: Dracula.
The Ground Beneath Our Feet / Jörðin undir fótum okkar - Q&A with Director Yrsa Roca Fannberg
Nov 4 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A sensitive and humanistic film about life at the end of life, when there is nowhere to go after Grund but the ground itself.
Trauma or, Monsters All - Q&A with Writer/Director Larry Fassenden
Nov 4 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A writer investigating her town's dark past for a newspaper article stirs up fears about lurking monsters. Larry Fessenden's final chapter of his quadrilogy works as a standalone or series finale.
Wild Horse Nine - Q&A with Director Martin McDonagh, Actors Steve Buscemi & John Malkovich
Nov 5 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
CIA agents Chris and Lee face a trust-testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during 1973 in Chile.
A Radical Thread - Q&A with Director Jeanne C. Finley (and Lynne Sachs)
UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens)
Nov 5 (7:30pm)
A back-to-the-land community fights off corporate Goliaths intent on environmental devastation while using the same collective ethos to stitch an 83-foot tapestry that visualizes their story.
Soul Patrol - Q&A with Director JM Harper
Nov 5 (7:30pm), Nov 6 (7:15pm)
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.
Filipiñana - Q&A with Director Rafael Manuel
Nov 6 (6pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th 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.
Her Song - Q&A with Director John Keller, Actors Elea Clair, Zach Grenier & Thais Sobreira, Producer Marine Assaiante, Cinematographer Wilhelm Kuhn
Nov 6 (6:30pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Olivia, a Franco-American author returns to her ancestral village in the south of France to write the story of her grandmother. There, she becomes enchanted by a local French woman, Madeline, who soon becomes the face of her new novel.
Littermates - Q&A with Directors Scott Tinkham & Michael Woloson
Nov 6 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Amidst the chaos of a mysterious war, two victims of an attack take refuge at a cottage in the English countryside, where an enigmatic caretaker insists they must stick together.
Club Kid - Q&A with Actors Alaska Riley & Eldar Isgandarov
Nov 6 (7:30pm), Nov 7 (7:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.
Tickled - Q&A with Director David Farrier
Nov 6 (7pm), Nov 8 (5pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
Seized - Q&A with Director Sharon Liese, Producers Sasha Alpert & Paul Matyasovsky, film participant Eric Meyer
Nov 6 (7pm), Nov 8 (1pm, 6pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
When Marion, Kansas, is thrust into the international spotlight after a police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of its 98-year-old co-owner, a fierce debate ignites about abuse of power, journalism, and the U.S. Constitution.
Filipinana - Q&A with Director Rafael Manuel
Nov 7 (11:15am)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
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.
My Undesirable Friends - Part II: Exile, Chapters 1-3 - Q&A with Director Julia Loktev
Nov 7 (12pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Follows Russian journalists from TV Rain who fled their country after being labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime. Now scattered across Europe and beyond, they continue reporting on Ukraine despite espionage charges.
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.
After Yang & Verse - Q&A with Directors Kogonada & Noam Argov, respectively
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.
I Play Rocky - Q&A with Director Peter Farrelly, Actors Anthony Ippolito & AnnaSophia Robb
Nov 7 (4:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A true story of an unknown actor who believed he wasn't meant to just write Rocky, but to play Rocky Balboa. Facing constant rejection, Sylvester Stallone risks everything, refusing to give up the lead role against impossible odds.
Paris Was a Woman - Q&A with Director Greta Schiller, Producer Andrea Weiss
Nov 8 (3:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Female artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers are settled in Paris between the wars.
My Architect - Q&A with Director Nathaniel Kahn
Nov 10 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.
XI. Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent - Q&A with Director Andrzej Wolf
Nov 10 (7:30pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Mr. Marian Turski, the world-renowned historian, journalist, and until his recent passing, president of the International Auschwitz Committee, takes us back to the roots of evil. A survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt death camps in his youth, Turski explains with firsthand knowledge and surgical precision how otherwise well-educated and cultured people can, under certain circumstances, turn into criminals and mass murderers.
Loving Karma - Q&A with Director Andrew Hinton
Nov 11 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
In the remote foothills of the Himalayas, a former monk has built a community for children who have endured abandonment and neglect. As the children grow the film asks a fundamental question: what happens when suffering meets compassion?
12 12 12 (1 episode) - Q&A with Actors Anthony Mackie & Jamie Dornan
Nov 11 (8pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Three intertwined timelines follow the planning and execution of a daring heist in Zurich and its aftermath as an FBI agent pursues a master criminal across Europe.
In Bed With Victoria - Intro by Actress Virginie Efira
Nov 13 (9:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Tricenarian lawyer Victoria is struggling with her past and looking for stability and true love in her life. Finally she realizes that love should not always be sought.
Kikuyu Land - Q&A with Director/Producer/subject Bea Wangondu, Producer Moses Bwayo
Nov 13 (7pm), Nov 14 (6:30pm), Nov 15 (1pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
In Kenya's tea highlands, one man's claim to his family's stolen land sets him on a path against multinational giant. His fight draws a local news producer into a battle that exposes the unfinished business of colonial power.
threeASFOUR: Full Circle - Q&A with Co-Director Sean Ono Lennon
Nov 13 (7pm), Nov 14 (7pm), Nov 15 (2:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Avant-garde NYC designers Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil create "couture-on-the-street" designs in a radical collaborative act shaped by war, identity, and hope.
The Altruists (Ep 1) & The Imitation Game - Q&A with Writer/Producer Graham Moore, Actor/Producer Julia Garner
Nov 16 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Follows the tumultuous romance between FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his girlfriend Caroline Ellison. It depicts their ambitious attempts to revolutionize the financial system, leading to a $36 billion fraud.
Minotaur - Q&A with Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
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.
Dinner With Friends - Q&A with Writer/Director Sasha Leigh Henry
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.
All of a Sudden - Q&A with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Nov 20 (6:30pm), Nov 22 (12:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Marie-Lou runs a nursing home near Paris and strives for more humane elder care. Her friendship with Mari, a Japanese theatre director facing terminal cancer, deepens her commitment to residents' dignity.
In the Hand of Dante - Q&A with Director Julian Schnabel
Nov 21 (3:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.
Ghost World - Q&A with Editor Michael R. Miller
Nov 21 (5:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Two eccentric best friends graduate high school and respond to a man's romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag, only to find their lives becoming increasingly complicated.
From Darkroom to Daylight - Q&A with Director Harvey Wang
Nov 21 (6:45pm)
Bronx Documentary Center Annex (364 East 151st Street, The Bronx)
Explores how the dramatic change from film to digital has affected photographers and their work. Photographer Harvey Wang, who began taking pictures as a teenager, was mid-career when the tools of his craft were made nearly obsolete with the transition to digital.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, Star Ellen Jovin
Nov 22 (4:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, 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.
Scarlet Girls - Q&A with Director Paula Cury
Nov 23 (6:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Through personal stories and vivid imagery, Scarlet Girls depicts women facing abortion stigma, forced motherhood, and hard decisions in a system denying their bodily autonomy.
Aquamarine - Q&A with Director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, Producer Susan Cartsonis
Nov 23 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Two teenage girls discover a mermaid in their beach club's swimming pool.
Little Children - Q&A with Actor Patrick Wilson
Nov 30 (6:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
WTO/99 - Q&A with Director Ian Bell
Nov 30 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO's impact on human rights, labor, and the environment.
The Last New Yorker - Q&A with Director Harvey Wang
Dec 1 (6:45pm)
Bronx Documentary Center Annex (364 East 151st Street, The Bronx)
Lenny is a small-time investor who's always managed by rolling the dice on Wall Street, but he just can't keep up with the times. When his luck finally runs out, his best friend Ruben hatches a plan to get them both out of town. But Lenny's not going anywhere. He's got two last rolls of the dice: one for the money, and one for the love of a beautiful mystery woman.
Desperately Seeking Susan - Q&A with Director Susan Seidelman
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.
Sapiro v. Ford: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford - Q&A with Director Gaylen Ross
Dec 8 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
The notoriously antisemitic automobile tycoon Henry Ford met his match when a Jewish lawyer named Aaron Sapiro brought a libel suit against him. Gaylen Ross's enlightening documentary tells the ultimate American David and Goliath story.
Feeders 2: Slay Bells - Q&A with Director Mark Polonia
Dec 17 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Aliens invade Earth over the Christmas holidays, and it's up to Santa Claus and his elves to save the world.