Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from February 21st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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UnBroken - Q&A with Director Beth Lane
Feb 21 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother and her six siblings who, as mere children, escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their own youthful bravado and the kindness of German strangers.
Compensation - Q&A with Director Zeinabu irene Davis, Writer Marc Arthur Chery
Feb 21 (6:30pm), Feb 22 (4:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse - Q&A with Directors Molly Bernstein & Philip Dolin
Feb 21 (7:10pm), Feb 22 (4:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS.
Ex-Husbands - Q&A with Director Noah Pritzker, Actors Griffin Dunne, James Norton, & Miles Heizer
Feb 21 (5pm), Feb 22 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Manhattan dentist Peter Pearce is facing a midlife crisis after his wife of 35 years leaves him. On the spur of the moment, he books a trip to Tulum, Mexico, only to crash his son’s bachelor party.
Ex-Husbands - Q&A with Director Noah Pritzker, Actor Griffin Dunne
Feb 21 (7:15pm), Feb 22 (7:15pm)
Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
Manhattan dentist Peter Pearce is facing a midlife crisis after his wife of 35 years leaves him. On the spur of the moment, he books a trip to Tulum, Mexico, only to crash his son's bachelor party.
Pizza Guy 8 - Q&A with Director Tate Hoffmaster
Feb 22 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After being pushed around, a kind, down-on-his-luck pizza delivery boy is finally pushed too far and goes on a killing spree. However, he soon discovers he is actually in a movie and tries to escape his murderous fate in this surrealist slasher.
The Daytrippers - Q&A with Actors Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Campbell Scott
Feb 23 (2pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice.
Spirits of Rebellion - Q&A with Director Zeinabu irene Davis
Feb 23 (2:50pm)
Metrograph (8 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Chronicles the critically acclaimed yet relatively unknown black filmmakers and media artists collectively known as the Los Angeles Rebellion.
She-Devil - Q&A with Director Susan Seidelman
Feb 24 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A surprisingly resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Adult Best Friends - Q&A with Director Delaney Buffett
Feb 24 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Inseparable since childhood, levelheaded Katie takes her codependent best friend Delaney on a girls' trip to break the news that she is getting married. Things do not go as planned.
MacGruber - Q&A with Co-Writer/Director Jorma Taccone
Feb 26 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Former special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his arch-enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C.
Rats! - Q&A with Directors Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky
Feb 27 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
In Fresno, Texas, graffiti artist Raphael's arrest leads to his involvement in a chain of events involving a sting operation, suicide, drug deals, criminal suspicions, weapons, a newswoman, and a plutonium deal gone wrong, creating chaos.
Rats! - Q&A with Directors Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky
Feb 28 (10:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
In Fresno, Texas, graffiti artist Raphael's arrest leads to his involvement in a chain of events involving a sting operation, suicide, drug deals, criminal suspicions, weapons, a newswoman, and a plutonium deal gone wrong, creating chaos.
Addams Family Values - Q&A with Writer Paul Rudnick
Mar 2 (11am)
Film Forum (208 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
The Southern Chronicles - Q&A with Director Ignas Miškinis
Mar 3 (6:30pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Democracy Under Seige - Q&A with Director Laura Nix, Cartoonist Ann Telnaes
Mar 4 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
The sharp wit and insightful art of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes to examine the challenges confronting US democracy ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
The Day Iceland Stood Still - Q&A with Director Pamela Hogan
Mar 5 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Oct. 24, 1975, Iceland: 90% of women just took the day off, and men scrambled to fulfill their duties, sometimes comically so. A gleeful, amazing tale of the feminist collective, "The Red Stockings", and their search for equality.
Boom For Real - Q&A with Director Sara Driver, Artist Lee Quinones
Mar 5 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
Brief Tender Light - Q&A with Director Arthur Musah
Mar 6 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
My Father's Name - Q&A with Director Susanna Styron
Mar 7 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Years after Lee Ed Frazier's death, his daughter Jan made a shocking discovery: as a young man her father had participated in a lynching. Now, as she attempts to uncover the truth about what happened, Jan must reckon with deeply conflicted feelings about the father she loved, grapple with how to hold her family accountable, and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.
Wendy and Lucy - Q&A with Writer/Director Kelly Reichardt, Producer Larry Fessenden
Mar 7 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.
Rather Be Ashes Than Dust - Q&A with Director Alan Lau, Ex Producer Nancy Tong
Mar 9 (6pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Memories of his four-year journey focused on the Hong Kong protests. Narrated in the first person, is rich with reflections and contemplations, most intertwined with feelings of guilt.
Slide - Q&A with Director/Animator Bill Plympton
Mar 9 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A slide guitar-playing cowboy appears in a corrupt 1940's logging town to battle a pair of evil twins and save the village of Sourdough Creek.
Bystanders - Q&A with Director May Beth McAndrews
Mar 10 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A group of murderous frat boys get more than they bargained for when they cross paths with a couple coming home from a wedding.
One To One: John & Yoko - Q&A with Editor/Co-Director Sam Rice-Edwards
Mar 11 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage.
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold - Q&A with Director Griffin Dunne
Mar 11 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne.
Vision Quest - Q&A with Actor Matthew Modine
Mar 13 (7:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter takes up temporary residence at his home.
Throuple - Q&A with Actors Michael Doshier, Jess Gabor, Tristan Carter-Jones, Stanton Plummer-Cambride
Mar 14 (7pm), Mar 15 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A lonely gay singer-songwriter learns how to ask for what he wants in life through a newfound romance with an honest and communicative married couple. All the while, he fears he is losing his best friend to her girlfriend.
Meanwhile - Q&A with Director Catherine Gund
Mar 14 (7pm), Mar 15 (6:30pm), Mar 16 (3:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Meanwhile is a docu-poem in six verses about artists breathing through chaos. Centering breath as a symbol of resilience, Meanwhile captures raw, unfinished moments—dancers in rehearsal, artists midway through their work—focusing on the act of creation. Rooted in the upheavals of 2020, the film uses breath as its through-line to symbolize collective survival
Tell Me A Riddle - Q&A with Director Lee Grant, Actress Brooke Adams
Mar 17 (6pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.
Suburban Fury - Q&A with Director Robinson Devor, Producer Jason Reid
Mar 18 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
"Suburban Fury" examines the 1975 assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore, a conservative, middle-aged, single mother from the San Francisco suburbs who became radicalized while working as an FBI informant.
Helen and the Bear - Q&A with Director Alix Blair, Ex Producer Kristen Johnson
Mar 25 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A rebellious young woman marries a prominent Republican politician twenty-six years older than her. Decades later, anticipating his death, she wrestles with their marriage, her sexuality, and a life spent by his side.