Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York from June 20th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Chestnut - Q&A with Director Jac Cron
Jun 20 (7:30pm), Jun 21 (7:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during her summer after college.
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.
The Imaginery - Q&A with Writer/Producer Yoshiyuki Momose
Jun 21 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Portrays the depths of humanity and creativity through the eyes of young Amanda and her imaginary companion, Rudger, a boy no one can see imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures.
The Secret Garden - Q&A with Director Agnieszka Holland
Jun 21 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.
Kinds of Kindness
Intro with Actors Jesse Plemons and Mamoudou Athie
Jun 21 (9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm)
Intro with Director Yorgos Lanthimos, Actress Emma Stone
Jun 21 (6pm SOLD OUT, 6:30pm SOLD OUT)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.
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.
Love Letters / Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women - Q&A with Director Greta Schiller
Jun 22 (3pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Love Letters tells the remarkable story of esteemed professor and feminist scholar Catharine R. Stimpson and Australian musicologist Elizabeth (Liz) Wood. Now in their 80s, they recall a time when living openly and loving unapologetically was a radical act.
Profiling legendary jazz trumpeter Tiny Davis and her partner of over 40 years, drummer-pianist Ruby Lucas, Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women weaves together rare jazz recordings, live performances, vintage photographs, and narrative poetry by Cheryl Clarke.
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.
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Jun 23 (3:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
As the second generation owner of New York's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressure of stepping into his father's shoes as the war in Ukraine impacts his family and staff.
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.
Sing Sing - Q&A with Actor Colman Domingo and others
Jun 26 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Last Summer - Q&A with Director Catherine Breillat
Jun 26 (6pm), Jun 28 (6pm), Jun 29 (6pm), Jun 30 (3:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th 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.
Sebastian - Q&A with Director Mikko Makela, Actor Ruaridh Mollica
Jun 27 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
Admissions Granted - Q&A with Director Miao Wang, EP Amanda Spain
Jun 27 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Screening exactly a year to the day that a landmark US Supreme Court ruling dismantled key aspects of affirmative action in higher education, filmmakers Hao Wu and Miao Wang examine the factors that led to the high-stakes lawsuit filed by Asian American plaintiffs against Harvard University, and the wide-ranging fallout from the decision.
I Think I Do - Q&A with Director Brian Sloan
Jun 27 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A screwball comedy about a gay couple at a straight couple's wedding.
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.
Janet Planet - Q&A with Director Annie Baker
Jun 28 (6:40pm), Jun 29 (6:40pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
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.
The Vourdalak - Q&A with Director Adrien Beau
Jun 28 (7:30pm), Jun 29 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.
How To Come Alive with Norman Mailer - Q&A with Director Jeff Zimbalist
Jun 28 (7:50pm), Jun 29 (5:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction. From his formative years in Brooklyn, through his career as a preeminent cultural voice, we follow Mailer's life through 6 marriages, 9 children, 11 bestselling books and 2 Pulitzer Prizes as he solidifies his place in the literary pantheon.
Family Portrait - Q&A with Director Lucy Kerr, Actress Deragh Campbell
Jun 28 (8:10pm), Jun 29 (2:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A sprawling family's futile attempts at capturing a family photo take a dreamlike turn when the matriarch vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her.
Confessions of a Good Samaritan - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Jun 28 (7pm), Jun 29 (7pm), Jun 30 (3pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Director Penny Lane's decision to become a "good Samaritan" by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism.
4 Little Girls - Q&A with Editor Sam Pollard, Producer Daphne McWilliams
Jun 29 (6:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
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.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Jun 30 (5:30pm)
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.
Prey for Rock & Roll - Q&A with Actress Gina Gershon, Director Alex Steyermark
Jun 30 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Jacki, the frontwoman for an all-girl punk rock band in LA, is on the verge of turning forty. The band has been scraping by for over a decade without managing to land a good record deal. Jacki must decide if she wants to keep plugging away at dreams of stardom, or to throw in the towel and devote herself full-time to the tattoo parlor where she works.
Wildcat - Q&A with Maya Hawke
Jul 1 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Follows the life of writer Flannery O'Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel.
Goldilocks and the Two Bears - Q&A with Director Jeff Lipsky, Actor Claire Milligan (some with Actors Bryan Mittelstadt, Serra Naiman)
Jul 5 (1pm, 4pm, 7pm), Jul 6 (1pm, 4pm, 7pm), Jul 7 (1pm, 4pm, 7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows Ingrid, Ian and Ivy, three unique strangers who find each other in an uninhabited condominium. They discover they actually have a lot in common, and start wondering whether they might be each other's salvation.
America's Burning - Q&A with Director David Smick
Jul 12 (7pm), Jul 13 (7pm), Jul 14 (2pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Plunges into the fragile state of America's apparently insurmountable economic divide, with a strikingly hopeful vision for its future.
Risky Business - Q&A with Actors Raphael Sbarge, Curtis Armstrong, Richard Masur
Jul 13 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
The Ballad of Little Jo - Q&A with Director Maggie Greenwald
Jul 15 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story - Q&A with Directors Ian Bonhote & Peter Ettedgui
Jul 16 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Reeve's rise to becoming a film star, follows with a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After which he became an activist for spinal cord injury treatments and disability rights.
Great Absence - Q&A with Director Kei Chika-ura, Actor Tatsuya Fuji
Jul 19 (7pm), Jul 20 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows the story of the reconciliation of a father and son who had been estranged for a long time among lost memories and dispersed pieces of lives.
Bad Biology - Q&A with Director Frank Henenlotter
Jul 24 (9:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Driven by biological excess, a man and a woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in a god awful love story.