Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from September 19th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Sep 19 (6:15pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles.

Sep 19 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X. Blvd, Manhattan)

LIFE OR DEATH tells the incredible journey of Silky Slim, a former gang leader whose life takes a profound turn after surviving a tragic accident that claims the lives of his friends. Fueled by miraculous signs, Silky embarks on a mission to break the cycle of violence and crime that once defined him.

Sep 19 (7:20pm)

Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

After a brush with death, Maya Gabeira makes history in the male-dominated world of big wave surfing.

Sep 19 (7:30pm)

Spectacle Theater (124 S. 3rd Street, Brooklyn)

Dale spends the majority of his time transporting various goods to people while attempting to carve out a social life in-between. Eventually the weight of work, his declining health, pressure from his manager and decaying social relations become too heavy to bear.

Sep 19 (8:15pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex-and-violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickie marts.

Sep 19 (8:30pm)

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

A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two female students.

Sep 19 (10pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Follows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.

Sep 20 (7pm)

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

An eight-year chronicle of the filmmaker's father.

Sep 20 (7:30pm), Sep 21 (7:30pm)

Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

Sep 20 (7:35pm), Sep 21 (7:35pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Embark on a journey with two sisters as they grapple with their relationship to their well-meaning but troubled father during their childhood summers.

Sep 20 (6:30pm), Sep 21 (6:30pm)

Film Forum (208 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.

Sep 20 (6:30pm), Sep 21 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The Village is brimming with stories and if you listen carefully it might tell you some: of the Manager who dreams in Latin and leaves his career for Astronomy and old books, of a translucent boy who carves moorland birds, of an open-air affair and a rock that is chiseled to dust.

Sep 20 (7pm), Sep 21 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Patricia Field is revered for her playful, punk-inspired work, legendary Bowery store (former staff include Laverne Cox and Ru Paul), and iconic looks for Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada and more. Featuring tributes from colleagues and friends like Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins, and Sarah Jessica Parker and tagging along with the tireless Field herself, HAPPY CLOTHES celebrates a fashion visionary.

Sep 20 (7:15pm), Sep 21 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

In 1964, a camera crew follows retired featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep. Down and out in Hartford, Conn., married to a woman half his age and facing mounting debts, Pep decides to return to the ring.

Sep 20 (7pm), Sep 22 (7:30pm), Sep 23 (5pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

At 21, he was a leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. By 23, he became Hong Kong's youngest elected lawmaker. At 26, he was Most Wanted. The film offers to uncover what happens to freedom when an authoritarian power goes unchecked.

Sep 21 (12pm)

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

John McNaughton's sole documentary, focusing on the work of painter George Condo

Sep 21 (6pm)

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

A Healthy Baby Girl - Healing at her parents' home after a radical hysterectomy from a cervical cancer related to a drug DES she was exposed to when her mother was given it to prevent a miscarriage, Helfand uses her camera as a diary to document complex issues of science,and corporate greed,and in the process awakens as a political activist.

The Tourist - A filmmaker approaching middle age ponders his life as a cinematographer traveling the world and the ethics of capturing images; on the homefront he and his wife struggle with fertility issues.

Sep 21 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Delves into the perilous aftermath of surgeon Elizabeth Taylor's split-second medical decision, unfolding a thrilling exploration of the fatal ripple effects triggered by a single human error.

Sep 21 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

A woman from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to.

Sep 21 (8:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

For one night only, Chinatown Basketball Club and Metrograph present a night of never-before-screened films and conversation at the intersection of basketball, art and Chinatown. These intimate portrayals of CBC characters and moods, by artists that are part of the group, will introduce audiences to a uniquely New York pick-up basketball and art community.

Sep 21 (9:20pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Sep 22 (12pm)

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

Chris struggles as a cop, not willing to play along with dishonest colleagues. When he first encounters Pam, he is drawn to her chaotic energy, and the two quickly fall in love. But Pam bristles at any expectation that she be a dutiful wife, drawn as she is to the mysteries of far away galaxies and black holes, seeking the extraordinary. Only when she discovers Chris has started to rob banks to elevate their lifestyle does she emerge from the malaise, invigorated by the danger.

Sep 22 (3:30pm)

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

Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. Following a tragedy, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey to Pakistan - guided by memories of her mother's youth in Karachi and her own coming-of-age in rural Canada.

Sep 22 (4pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Tracker follows a lone wolf survivalist (Hartley) who roams the country using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve mysteries — all while contending with his own fractured family.

Sep 23 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

Escaping their dying planet, two body-snatching alien lovers arrive separately on Earth. Jumping from body to body in search of each other, they dig themselves deeper and deeper in the madness of modern-day America.

Sep 23 (7:30pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

The story of American photographer Lee Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Sep 23 (7:30pm), Sep 25 (8pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Sixty years ago, the late, great Neoclassical Penn Station was razed and replaced with the crowded, subterraneous version of the transit hub New Yorkers now know. Today, an all-too similar demolition debate has resurfaced over the train station. But while just about every New Yorker can agree they hate Penn Station, no one can agree on how to fix it.

Sep 24 (7pm)

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

After bassist Jason Newsted quits the band in 2001, superstars Metallica realize that they need an intervention. In this revealing documentary, the filmmakers follow the three rock stars as they hire a group therapist and grapple with 20 years of repressed anger and aggression while searching for a replacement bass player and creating a new album confronting their personal demons.

Sep 25 (6:45pm), Sep 26 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

As the Ukraine war moves into its third year, a surprising story of resilience: how children in Ukraine are surviving the Russian war machine that has targeted them and their families. Life behind the frontlines as seen through the eyes of the children who will inherit a country struggling to survive a brutal invasion.

Sep 27 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

Sep 27-28 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

The year of 1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.

Sep 27-29 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Darla Peterson and a sentient kombucha scoby named Mother try to raise the money to pay off Darla's tax debt using Mother's ability to grant orgasms.

Sep 27-29 (1:30pm, 4pm, 7pm), Oct 1-3 (2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm)

Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

A Japanese restaurant serves whale meat, while the industry declines. Experts discuss environmental issues, resource management and alternative protein sources at international conferences.

Sep 27 (8pm SOLD OUT), Sep 28 (3pm, 8pm), Sep 29 (12pm)

Sep 30 (6:15pm), Oct 1 (6:15pm), Oct 2 (8pm), Oct 3 (8:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Like many areas in the United States, the City of Baltimore has been plagued by gun violence. Amid the George Floyd uprising, Brandon Scott, a young reform-minded leader, is elected mayor. His hope is to lower violence in the city with a new public health-focused approach rather than relying only on policing as he feels others have done.

Sep 28 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.

Sep 28 (8:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Sep 29 (5:45pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Once famous model Lou Andreas Sand recalls her past as she tries to find success in the New York modeling world, her affair with ad exec Mark, her friendship with fashion photographer Aaron Reinhardt, and her downward spiral.

Sep 30 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

When their Lower East Side building comes under siege by a predatory landlord, a young filmmaker and an aging punk artist forge an unlikely friendship. As the two women collaborate on a portrait of a creative life amidst NYC's cultural crisis, they discover what it means to be neighbors.

Sep 30 (7:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

Examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi and others released their own records and booked their own shows—without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny.

Oct 1 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Two horror fans buy a creepy duplex to shoot a film. They find cult members gathering outside in a trance. The friends investigate the phenomenon, their obsession escalating as they pursue real-life horror thrills.

Oct 1 (7:30pm SOLD OUT)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. Hoping to heal, she returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands where she grew up.

Oct 2 (6:30pm)

Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)

A person's ZIP code has been shown to have a greater impact on health and well-being than their genetic code, affecting access to education, transportation, and wealth. How is this possible? The provocative documentary ZIP Code Matters boldly asks the question and gets profound and insightful answers from some of the nation's leading policymakers, nonprofit executives, public health officials and social justice activists.

Oct 2 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

MEN IN BLACK follows the exploits of agents Kay and Jay, members of a top-secret organization established to monitor alien activity on Earth. The two MiB find themselves in the middle of the deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

Oct 3 (7pm)

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

An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics and haphazard production methods were both a driving force of the band’s early rise and the cause of his eventual crash landing.

Oct 4-5 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Destruction in Ukraine war shown through lengthy tableaux. Soldiers' phone calls to families reveal parallel world. Sound and image confront one another.

Oct 4-5 (7:15pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Could this be just the recipe to spice up his boring life?

Oct 4-6 (4:20pm, 7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Nurse Unseen explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses who risked  their lives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic while facing a resurgence of anti-Asian hate in the streets.

Oct 5 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

Oct 5 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Director Richard Fung draws on a 20-year-old video archive of interviews with Ladoo's family, friends, and literary contemporaries in an attempt to piece together the puzzle of the Trinidadian author's complex life.

Oct 10 (7pm)

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

Uncropped rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America. For over four decades working as a staff photographer at publications such as Harper's Bazaar, The New York Observer and, most notably, The Village Voice, Hamilton captured some of the most remarkable people and stories of the last half century.

Oct 11 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results.

Oct 13 (2:50pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Oct 28 (7pm)

Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

Anxiety-ridden Walt embarks on a desperate quest through Portland, Maine to retrieve his stolen dog before his girlfriend returns from a business trip, or risk losing them both.

Nov 11 (6:30pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.