Here's our list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from April 18th and beyond. These are the screenings that have actors, directors or producers at them to answer questions from critics and audience members. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Apr 18 (6:45pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Tells the story of two best friends growing up in the 90s in the infamous (and now-demolished) Chicago housing project, Cabrini-Green. 12-year-olds Malik and Eric are inseparable — they idolize Michael Jordan, compete in jumping contests, play hooky at the Art Institute. But when a shooting hits too close to home, the hard realities of safety confront Malik's mother, and she must make a difficult decision about her family’s future.

Apr 18 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression.

Apr 19 (7pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Following a small town that is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears, promising to reveal everyone's true potential, season two of The Big Door Prize follows the residents as the machine readies them for the mysterious "next stage" - prompted by vivid visions and new relationships.

Apr 19 (7:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut, 1973, middle-class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.

Apr 19 (7:30pm)

Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)

Determined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.

Apr 19 (7:15pm), Apr 20 (5pm, 7:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

The fates of three families become inextricably intertwined when a Palestinian citizen is killed by a Jewish settler in the city of Lod, Israel, and deadly riots break out.

Apr 19 (7pm), Apr 20 (7pm), Apr 23 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

For 50 years, Chinese American photographer Corky Lee documented the celebrations, struggles, and daily lives of Asian American Pacific Islanders with epic focus. Determined to push mainstream media to include AAPI culture in the visual record of American history, Lee produced an astonishing archive of nearly a million compelling photographs. His work takes on new urgency with the alarming rise in anti-Asian attacks during the Covid pandemic.

Apr 20 (5:30pm)

Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)

UNCROPPED rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America, who made iconic images of artists, musicians and cultural icons in New York and across the country during his extraordinary, capturing an era of vibrant alternative media and the height of New York's cultural impact.

Apr 21 (12pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

Mr. Fox pulls off a series of daring heists on the neighboring human farmers. When a war is declared by the farmers, threatening the lives of his family and friends, Mr. Fox plans to outsmart the humans.

Apr 21 (1pm)

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

The film examines individuals affected by corporate animal agriculture, including the mental and physical toll taken on workers on a pig farm in rural Oklahoma; the Cherokee activist Pam Kingfisher and her fight to take back tribal lands; and the dedicated people devoted to rehabilitating animals abused on mega-farms.

Apr 21 (6pm)

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

Arturo, who, on the way to the wedding party of his former best friend, is involved in a bizarre car accident. Though he escapes unscathed, from that moment on, a series of memories unfold as deeply personal flashbacks. As he proceeds to intoxicate himself with alcohol and pot, the past and the present merge in a sometimes humorous manner, forcing him to confront delayed grief and the darkest aspects of his personality.

Apr 22 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in NY. As time runs out on his work visa, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country.

Apr 23 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

MOVIEPASS, MOVIECRASH chronicles the origin story, meteoric rise and stranger-than-fiction implosion of the theatrical movie subscription app, MoviePass, as told through the eyes of the visionary co-founders.

Apr 23 (7:15pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Apr 23 (8:30pm)

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

A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.

Apr 24 (7pm)

BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Kiss Grandmama Goodbye: Set in a segregated midwestern community in the early 60s, Debra J. Robinson's touching drama follows a young girl as she comes to terms with the death of her beloved grandmother

I Be Done Been Was Is: Robinson profiles four Black female comedians—Alice Arthur, Rhonda Hansome, Jane Galvin Lewis, and Marsha Warfield—who use humor to illuminate the experiences of African-American women.

Apr 24 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

HUMANE takes place over a single day, mere months after a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth's population. In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman has invited his four grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation's new euthanasia program. But when the father's plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.

Apr 25 (6:45pm), Apr 26 (6:50pm), Apr 27 (6:50pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

UNCROPPED rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America, who made iconic images of artists, musicians and cultural icons in New York and across the country during his extraordinary, capturing an era of vibrant alternative media and the height of New York's cultural impact.

Apr 26 (6:30pm)

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

Fixation by William Wiebe. Filming within an eye-tracking platform funded by Meta, Fixation gives presence to omnipresent attention-manipulating media and how they affect what we perceive as real.

Iris by Sheri Wills. Collaging found 16mm, tape loops, and audio records originally made by behaviorist B. F. Skinner, Iris explores how filmic techniques attempt to focus audience attention and the ambiguity that lies on the edges of perception.

Apr 26 (7:35pm), Apr 27 (7:35pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Apr 26 (7:50pm), Apr 27 (7:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In Tehran, a new father seeks to register the name (insufficiently Islamic, he is told) of his newborn son; a 20-something rideshare driver caught on camera without a hijab attempts to retrieve her impounded car; a man with poem tattoos applies for a driver's license; an elderly woman pleads with the police for the return of her beloved dog.

Apr 26 (7:30pm), Apr 27 (5pm, 7pm), Apr 28 (7pm), Apr 29 (7:30pm), Apr 30 (7:30pm), May 1 (7:30pm), May 2 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

A sci-fi documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd – a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was once a bustling Palestinian town until it was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948. As the film unfolds, a chorus of characters creates a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and the trauma left by the massacre and expulsion; while vivid animations envision an alternate reality where the same characters live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning which future should prevail.

Apr 30 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a notorious murder case, and the segregated south - it's all part of Nellie Mae Rowe's boundless universe.

May 2 (7:30pm)

This documentary reveals the story of a fierce rock 'n' roller, actress, muse and mother who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Using the words of her unpublished memoir, Anita brings us deep into her world, with the help of a supporting cast that includes her family – Marlon, Angela, and their father Keith Richards.

May 2 (7pm, 7:30pm)

May 3 (7pm)

Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Follows the life of writer Flannery O'Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel.

May 3 (8:30pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.

May 3 (7:45pm), May 4 (7:45pm)

Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously cancelled.

May 3 (8:30pm), May 4 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

An underdog group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down. Finding the Money follows former chief economist to the Senate Budget Committee, Stephanie Kelton, on a journey through Modern Money Theory or "MMT", to unveil a deeper story about money, injecting new hope and empowering democracies around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.

May 3 (7pm), May 4 (7:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

A young rapper leaves everything behind and embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery, music, and friendship in the heart of Texas.

May 5 (4:30pm)

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

Follows Juan Pablo and his girlfriend, Valentina, as they embark on a journey to Barcelona, where he plans on getting his PhD. Things take increasingly absurd and sinister turns when Juan Pablo becomes entangled in a criminal network, which ultimately inspires him to write the novel he always dreamed of.

May 8 (6pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

There is a war on immigrants being waged every day in our country, and not just along the southern border - we have become a Borderland, the border is everywhere and within every immigrant. A massive surveillance, militarized and carceral apparatus has been built to capture, imprison and deport millions of immigrants. If Trump becomes president again, he vows to round up and force mass deportation of immigrants regardless of documentation status.

May 14 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Two disgruntled restaurant employees decide to rob their employers.

May 27 (12:15pm)

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.

Jun 9 (3:15pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

A tender, funny, & powerful portrait of transgender comedian Julia Scotti, exploring the courage & humor it takes to be Julia.