Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York from May 30th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Handling The Undead - Q&A with Director Thea Hvistendahl
May 30 (7:30pm), May 31 (7pm), Jun 1 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother's reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car accident; an elderly woman gets the love of her life back the same day she has buried her; a grandfather rescues his grandchild from the gravesite in a desperate attempt to get his daughter out of her depression.
Rowdy Girl - Q&A with Director Jason Goldman
May 31 (7pm), Jun 1 (7:30pm), Jun 2 (4:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
After a spiritual awakening, a former Texas cattle rancher leaves the cruel cycle of animal agriculture and transforms her husband's beef operation into a sanctuary. Showcases the inspiring work of Renee King-Sonnen, who has lived on both sides of the fence, and proves that there is a common ground between farmers and vegans: a shared mission of compassion and sustainability.
Flipside - Q&A with Director Chris Wilcha, moderated by Ira Glass
May 31 (6pm, 8:30pm), Jun 2 (2:55pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis.
Wild Style - Intro by Director Charlie Ahearn
May 31 (6:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
Invisible Nation - Q&A with Director Vanessa Hope, Producer Ted Hope
May 31 (7pm), Jun 1 (1pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
With unprecedented access to Taiwan's sitting head of state, director Vanessa Hope investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan.
An American Werewolf in London - Intro by Actor Griffin Dunne
Jun 1 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Hidden Master - Q&A with Director Sam Shahid
Jun 1 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
An intimate look at a pioneering, openly gay artist, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude.
Footnotes - Q&A with Director Chris Leary, Producer Hunter Truman, Actor Sharayu Mahale
Jun 1 (6pm), Jun 2 (6pm w/ Director & Producer)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Footnotes is the story of neighbors and near total strangers, Will and Apurna. When they begin spending lock-down together in the wake of the 2020 pandemic, what starts as a platonic convenience quickly develops into something much, much more.
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Jun 2 (2:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The story of New York City's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka and its father and son proprietors, Tom and Jason Birchard. When Jason graduated college without a vision for his future, Tom brings him into the family business. Jason learns that Tom's dedication to Veselka produces delicious food that satisfies a colorful cast of
Hit Man - Q&A with Director Richard Linklater, Actors Adria Arjona & Retta
Jun 3 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Inspired by an unbelievable true story, a strait-laced professor discovers he has a hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a powder keg of deception, delight, and mixed-up identities.
Have You Got It Yet? - Q&A with Director Roddy Bogawa
Jun 4 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.
Baby Reindeer (Ep 1 & 2)- Q&A with Creator/Actor Richard Gadd, Actors Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau
Jun 5 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
The story follows writer and performer Richard Gadd's warped relationship with a female stalker and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced to face a deep, dark buried trauma.
Naked Acts - Q&A with Director Bridgett M. Davis
Jun 6 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Aspiring actress Cicely has lost 57 pounds and landed her first movie role. The director didn't tell her about a nude scene. Reluctant to do it, she embarks on a personal journey that unveils secrets once hid under her excessive weight.
I Used To Be Funny - Q&A with Director Ally Pankiw
Jun 6 (6:45pm), Jun 7 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Sam, a stand-up comedian struggling with PTSD, weighs whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.
Banel & Adama - Q&A with Director Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Jun 7 (8:10pm), Jun 8 (6:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
Tuesday - Q&A with Director Daina O. Pusic, Actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Lola Petticrew
Jun 7 (7:30pm), Jun 8 (7:30pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A mother, in a profoundly moving performance) and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. From debut filmmaker Daina O. Pusic, Tuesday is a heart-rending fairy tale about the echoes of loss and finding resilience in the unexpected.
The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed - Q&A with Director Joanna Arnow
Jun 8 (12:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, 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.
So Pretty - Intro and Q&A with Director Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Jun 8 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Four queer and trans youth in New York City struggle to maintain their proto-utopian community against the outside world as their lives curiously merge with the 1980s German novel So Schön by Ronald M. Schernikau.
Julia Scotti: Funny That Way - Q&A with Director Susan Sandler and guests Julia Scotti & Julie Klausner
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.
After Hours - Q&A with Actor Griffin Dunne
Jun 9 (5:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Old Joy - Q&A with Actor Daniel London, DP Peter Sillen
Jun 9 (6pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Honeysuckle Rose - Q&A with Director Jerry Schatzberg
Jun 10 (6:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Buck is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Viv and Lily, the daughter of his longtime musical sidekick.
Margaret (Extended Cut) - Q&A with Writer/Director Kenneth Lonergan, Actress J. Smith-Cameron
Jun 10 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
The Beaver Trilogy - Q&A with Director Trent Harris
Jun 11 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
In 1979, filmmaker Trent Harris visits the small town of Beaver, Utah to film a talent show. Impressed by a performer called Groovin' Gary, he recreates Gary's act in 1981 with Sean Penn and in 1985 with Crispin Glover.
Cora Bora - Q&A with Actress Megan Stalter
Jun 11 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Cora goes home to win back her girlfriend, and soon realizes it's much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
Daddio - Q&A with Actress Dakota Johnson
Jun 11 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A woman taking a cab ride from JFK engages in a conversation with the taxi driver about the important relationships in their lives.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always - Q&A with Writer/Director Eliza Hittman
Jun 12 (6:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Notes on Displacement - Q&A with Director Khaled Jarrar
Jun 12 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
By following a family across the Balkan route, a Palestinian director plunges into the horror of exile in a desperate need to recover his lost memories.
Liquid Sky - Q&A with Director Slava Tsukerman, Actor/Producer Nina V. Kerova
Jun 12 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.
All Over Me - Q&A with Actress Alison Folland
Jun 12 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of '90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent, meaningless death rocks their lives.
The Panic In Needle Park - Q&A with Director Jerry Schatzberg
Jun 13 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.
Room 999 - Intro and Q&A with Director Lubna Playoust
Jun 14 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks a new generation of filmmakers similar questions.
Full Metal Jacket - Q&A with Actor Matthew Modine
Jun 14 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Naked Acts - Q&A with Director Bridgett M. Davis
Jun 14 (7pm), Jun 15 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Aspiring actress Cicely has lost 57 pounds and landed her first movie role. The director didn't tell her about a nude scene. Reluctant to do it, she embarks on a personal journey that unveils secrets once hid under her excessive weight.
Queendom - Q&A with Director Agniia Galdanova, Producer Igor Myakotin
Jun 14 (7pm), Jun 15 (4:40pm, 7pm), Jun 19 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
In defiance of Russia's anti-LGTBQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin's radical public performances blend artistry and activism.
Cora Bora
Q&A with Actress Meg Stalter
Jun 14 (7:30pm)
Q&A with Writer Rhianon Jones, Producer Tristan Scott Behrends
Jun 16 (5:10pm, 7:30pm)
Cora goes home to win back her girlfriend, and soon realizes it's much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
Sons and Grown-Ups - Q&A with Director Manfred Kirchheimer
Jun 15 (2:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Sons: This frank generational portrait assembles a gallery of aging men, all baby boomers drawn from the filmmaker's community of friends and family, to share and reflect upon tender, often painful memories of their parents.
Grown-Ups: A cross-section of men and women reflect on life's milestones, such as finding one's vocation, the loss of a loved one, childhood joys and traumas, and other events which would ultimately prove to be defining moments in their lives.
Something Wild - Q&A with Sound Engineer Tom Fleischman
Jun 15 (6:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Charles is a corporate cog just miserable enough to be swept off his feet by Audrey, who drags him from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where he's to pose as her successful boyfriend at a high school reunion, and all the time wondering how he got to where he is at this moment.
Rome, Open City - Intro and Q&A with Isabella Rossellini (daughter of Director)
Jun 16 (2:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
In Rome during World War II, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
Hardcore - Q&A with Writer/Director Paul Schrader
Jun 16 (5:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A religious businessman from Michigan has to venture into the world of pornography in California, desperately searching for his runaway teenage daughter.
Hugo - Q&A with Sound Engineer Tom Fleischman
Jun 16 (6:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A storybook tale of an orphaned 12-year-old who keeps up the clocks at Paris's Gare Montparnasse following his father's death who, through a serendipitous encounter with aged, forgotten filmmaker Georges Méliès, finds a new makeshift family through his immersion in the world of cinema.
Janet Planet - Q&A with Director Annie Baker
Jun 20 (6pm), Jun 21 (6pm), Jun 22 (3:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person - Q&A with Writer/Director Ariane Louis-Seize, Actress Sara Montpetit
Jun 21 (7:15pm), Jun 22 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.
Janet Planet - Q&A with Writer/Director Annie Baker
Jun 21 (7:30pm), Jun 22 (5pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
Green Border - Q&A with Director Agnieszka Holland
Jun 21 (7:20pm), Jun 22 (6pm), Jun 23 (4:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.
Return To Seoul - Q&A with Director Davy Chou
Jun 22 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.
Smithereens - Q&A with Director Susan Siedelman
Jun 25 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A talent-challenged girl tries to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world.
Last Summer - Q&A with Director Catherine Breillat
Jun 27 (7pm), Jun 28 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.
June Zero - Q&A with Director Jake Paltrow and EP Ron Goldman
Jun 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Examines Adolf Eichmann's trial, capturing the empathy and humanism amidst the atrocities committed during WWII.
El Mariachi - Q&A with Actor/Producer Carlos Gallardo
Jun 29 (7pm)
Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.