Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from December 12th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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The Bibi Files - Q&A with Director Alexis Bloom
Dec 12 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An inside look into the corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through leaked police interrogation videos.
The Room Next Door - Q&A with Actors Julianne Moore and John Turturro
Dec 12 (6:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape - Q&A with Director Zack Taylor
Dec 12 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock veterans like Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore, and Ian MacKaye join a legion of young bands releasing music on tape to push Lou along on his journey to remember.
Dexter: Original Sin (episode) - Q&A with Actors Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patrick Gibson, Christina Milian, Molly Brown
Dec 12 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows a young Dexter Morgan on his transition into an avenging serial killer.
Unmade Beds - Q&A with Director Amos Poe
Dec 13 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Photographer Rico fantasizes himself a 1960s Paris gangster. An outsider using his camera like a gun, he searches for reality to fulfill his dreams until falling in love disrupts the delicate balance of his imagined world.
Jesus - Der Film - Q&A with Director Michael Brynntrup
Dec 13 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A punky black-and-white Super 8 telling of the life and afterlife of the Nazarene, this iconoclastic underground epic stars project initiator Brynntrup in the title role, seen in 35 episodes taken from the New Testament interpreted by 22 different filmmakers from all over divided Germany.
Life and Death of a Christmas Tree - Q&A with Director Arturas Jevdokimovas
Dec 13 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A Lithuanian documentary filmmaker goes behind the scenes of the never-seen-before magic of Christmas to show how Christmas trees arrive at his home.
The Room Next Door - Q&A with Actors Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Author Sigrid Nunez
Dec 13 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Nickel Boys - Q&A with Director RaMell Ross
Dec 13 (6pm), Dec 14 (5pm, 5:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Cashing Out - Q&A with Director/Producer Matt Nadel, EP Julie Cohen
Dec 13 (7pm), Dec 14 (5pm, 7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
At the height of the AIDS crisis, thousands of queer people sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. A thought-provoking exploration of this billion-dollar "AIDS profiteering" industry, Cashing Out tells the intimate stories of those who fought for dignity in an unfeeling marketplace—and investigates the filmmaker's unlikely personal connection to this industry.
Bright Vignettes: How Astoria Got Its Pride - Q&A with Director Patricia Silva
Dec 14 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Contextualizes the achievements and activity leading up to the Astoria neighborhood's inaugural Pride in 2023.
Ain't Nothin' Without You - Q&A with Director Pia Frankenburg
Dec 14 (2:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Martha, a filmmaker and single mother wracked with guilt over her background of privilege, and Klaus Bueb as Alfred, a child of '68 radicalism who has spent years stalled in his architecture studies, working on the side as a film studio tour guide.
Sabbath Queen - Q&A with Director Sandi DuBowski
Dec 14 (4pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A 39th generation ex-Orthodox rabbi embarks on a remarkable 21-year personal journey, also embracing life as a drag queen.
A Complete Unknown - Q&A with Director James Mangold, Actors Ed Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro
Dec 14 (5pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
In the early 1960s, 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. Forming his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement, making a controversial choice that reverberates worldwide.
I Saw the TV Glow - Q&A with Director Jane Schoenbrun
Dec 14 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A teenager just trying to make it through life in the suburbs is introduced by a classmate to a mysterious late-night TV show.
Afterschool - Q&A with Director Antonio Campos
Dec 14 (7:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Internet-addled, emotionally disturbed prep school kid Robert, who has taken to using his new video camera as a buffer between the real world and himself, captures the overdose deaths of two classmates while on a school assignment, an incident which will have widespread repercussions for his frayed psyche and the elite institution he attends.
The Brutalist - Q&A with Director Brady Corbet
Dec 15 (1pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Dec 15 (5pm)
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.
Artists: Depression, Anxiety & Rage - Q&A with Directors Lydia Lunch & Jasmine Hirst
Dec 15 (5pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A timely expression of faith that through art, community, and an open dialogue about our darkest experiences, not only can we heal, but our loved ones may come to a better understanding of the struggles so many of us have endured.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver, Writer Chris Wells
Dec 15 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Babygirl - Q&A with Director Halina Reijn
Dec 17 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.
Turbulence - Intro with Writer Jonathan Brett
Dec 17 (9:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
After a shootout on a flight transporting prisoners, a flight attendant must outwit a smooth-talking serial killer and land the plane herself.
The Proposal - Q&A with Director Jill Magid
Dec 18 (12:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An artist fights to make the archives of Mexico's most famous architect available to the public.
Maria Full of Grace - Q&A with Writer/Director Joshua Marston, Actress Catalina Sandino Moreno
Dec 18 (6:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
The dangerous physical and emotional journey of a pregnant 17-year-old girl who quits her job trimming stems at a rose plantation and drifts into employment as a drug "mule," smuggling heroin from her native land into the United States to pay for her mother's and sister's bills.
Vampire's Kiss - Q&A with Writer Joseph Minion
Dec 20 (9:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.
Carol - Q&A with Editor Affonso Goncalves
Dec 21 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Dune: Part Two - Q&A with Editor Joe Walker
Dec 27 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Paul Atreides unites with the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future.
Challengers - Q&A with Writer Justin Kuritzkes
Dec 28 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he'll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
Challengers - Q&A with Writer Justin Kuritzkes
Jan 2 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he'll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
The Last Republican - Q&A with Director Steve Pink, Subject Congressman Adam Kinzinger
Jan 3 (7pm), Jan 4 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In the wake of the January 6 Capitol riot, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger teams up with Hollywood director Steve Pink to shed light on the events and hold those responsible accountable.
Black Box Diaries - Q&A with Director/Subject Shiori Ito
Jan 7 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems.
Oceans Are The Real Continents - Q&A with Director Tommaso Santambrogio
Jan 10 (7:40pm), Jan 11 (7:40pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Having Cuba as a background, decadent and in crisis, in a black-and-white lacerated by the Caribbean swinging rain, Alex and Edith, a couple in their 30s, live their love story made of small daily gestures, stories from the past, nostalgia and a deep intimacy.
Bring on the Damned! - Q&A with Writer/Director Brandon Bassham
Jan 11 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Five tales of perversion, obsession, blasphemy, nihilism, and sadism.
VHYES - Q&A with Director Jack Henry Robbins, Producer Delaney Schenker
Jan 11 (7:15pm SOLD OUT, 7:45pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
12-year-old Ralph loves making home videos around his house. He also loves hooking it up to the TV to record his favorite shows. Ralph, however, didn’t realize he was using his parents' wedding video as his canvas.