Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from July 25th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Only The River Flows - Q&A with Director Wei Shujun
Jul 26 (7:15pm), Jul 27 (1:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Chief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly, clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals.
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Jul 27 (11:25am)
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.
Make Me Famous
Q&A with Photographer, Marcia Resnick, Photographer Josef Astor, Archival Cinematographer Jim C
Jul 27 (5pm)
Q&A with Filmmaker and photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, curator and archivist, Sur Rodney Sur
Jul 31 (7pm)
Q&A with Artis Peter McGough, Basquiat's first Gallerist Annina Nosei
Aug 1 (7pm)
Village East Cinema by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, 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.
Swan Song - Q&A with EP Neve Campbell, Director Chelsea McMullan
Jul 30 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An immersive, behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's leading ballet companies as it mounts a new production of Swan Lake. Ballet icon Karen Kain, on the eve of her retirement, directs the National Ballet of Canada.
Kneecap - Q&A with Director Rich Peppiatt
Jul 30 (8pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In post-troubles Belfast, the riotous rap trio Kneecap emerges, setting the stage for the Irish language's resurgence against the establishment.
Sleepaway Camp - Q&A with Director Robert Hiltzik
Jul 28 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.
Cosmic Disco Detective Rene - Q&A with Writer/Director Sujewa Ekanayake
Aug 1 (7pm)
Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole Avenue, Brooklyn)
Are immortal time travelers going back in time to disrupt the past? The government wants to know so they hire Rene, the famous New York City private detective who uses unusual methods - including using the background sound of the universe, which sounds like disco music - to find the answers.
Creating Rem Lezar - Q&A with Actor Jack Mulcahy
Aug 2 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Staten Island (2636 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island)
Zack and Ashlee discover the meaning of true friendship when they create an imaginary friend, the superhero Rem Lezar.
Sebastian - Q&A with Director Mikko Mäkelä
Aug 2 (6:45pm), Aug 3 (6:45pm)
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.
War Game - Q&A with Directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber
Aug 2 (7pm), Aug 3 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
US officials simulate a coup post a disputed election. Insurgents take capitals, questioning the president's military control. Countering disinformation is vital, highlighting bipartisan defense of democracy.
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Aug 3 (11:25am)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
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.
Heaven Adores You - Q&A with Director Nickolas Rossi
Aug 6 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The film is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith (1969-2003). By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of the three major cities he lived in — Portland, New York City, Los Angeles —HEAVEN ADORES YOU presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singer's prolific songwriting and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, and fellow musicians.
Happy Campers - Q&A with Director Amy Nicholson
Aug 7 (7pm), Aug 8 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Blue-collar families escape life to on the water in a seasonal trailer park. When their shabby Shangri-La is threatened by development, the residents of Inlet View face the inevitable, and reveal the secrets to a rich life.
Cuckoo - Q&A with Director Tilman Singer
Aug 8 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A 17-year old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.
Valet Girls - Q&A with Director Rafal Zielinkski
Aug 8 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A young girl who aspires to a singing career gets herself and her best friend a job as valet parking girls at a Malibu party in order to meet people who can help them achieve their dreams.
Sugercane - Q&A with Directors Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie
Aug 8 (7pm), Aug 9 (7:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Good One - Q&A with Director India Donaldson, Actors Lily Collias and Danny McCarthy
Aug 9 (9pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.
Good One
Q&A with Director India Donaldson, Actor Lily Collias
Aug 9 (6:30pm)
Q&A with Actor Lily Collias
Aug 10 (6:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.
Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision - Q&A with Director John McDermott
Aug 9 (7pm), Aug 10 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Chronicles the creation of the studio, rising from the rubble of a bankrupt Manhattan nightclub to state-of-the-art recording facility inspired by Hendrix's desire for a permanent studio.
Soft in the Head - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver (and cast)
Aug 13 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Kicked out of her apartment, Natalia wanders New York City, crashing a family's holiday meal, staying at a shelter, and dragging everyone down with her.
In Search of Gladys Glover - Q&A with Director Gina Telaroli
Aug 15 (7:30pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A diary-cum-thriller-cum comedy-cum-horror film shot on an iPhone for zero dollars with friends. IN SEARCH OF GLADYS GLOVER is a time-shifting journey about the disorienting feeling of being in the city the past few years. It's a movie for everyone who wakes up each day and continues to put one foot in front of other—laughing often, crying often, watching as many beautiful films and sports games as possible, aimlessly walking the city streets alone, making art, hanging with good friends—but ultimately doesn’t understand what the fuck is going on anymore.
Rat Scratch Fever - Q&A with Director Jeff Leroy
Aug 15 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
When a doomed space mission brings an army of savage and super intelligent giant rats back to Earth, Los Angeles becomes ground zero for survival as the ravenous creatures descend upon the city with an insatiable hunger for flesh and destruction.
Hester Street - Q&A with Actress Carol Kane
Aug 17 (5:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
Mountains
Q&A with Writer/Director Monica Sorelle, Writer Robert Colom
Aug 22 (7:15pm)
Q&A with Actors Atibon Nazaire & Sheila Anozier
Aug 24 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
Summer of Sam - Q&A with Actor/Co-Writer Michael Imperioli
Aug 27 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Merchant Ivory - Q&A with Director Stephen Soucy, Executive Producer James Ivory
Aug 27 (7pm), Aug 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company.