Not many places around the entire world have filmmakers (directors, producers, actors and more) available in its backyard or that will travel to it quite like New York City. With more independent cinemas than anywhere else on top of that, NYC has the best moviegoing experiences in the world. Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from July 11th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Jul 11 (6:45pm), Jul 12 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Karl and his physicist wife explore the vastness of the universe and humanity's existential crisis while reckoning with scientific truth.

Jul 11 (7pm), Jul 12 (7pm), Jul 13 (7pm)

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

A poignant portrayal of the diverse group of native people who endeavour to save what is left of the Brazilian Amazon. It dissects the economic drivers that fuel large-scale environmental destruction, while exposing the corruption.

Jul 11 (7pm)

Jul 12 (7pm)

Jul 13 (4pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the American landscape. They aimed to reshape the world with "free love" and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongst citizens across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a naïve past, the film discovers a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy at the influential Black Bear Ranch, in Siskiyou County, California.

Jul 12 (8:15pm), Jul 13 (7:20pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way.

Jul 13 (3pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a rollicking road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time.

Jul 13 (5:30pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

1930's, somewhere in the American Midwest: a former child-prodigy writer Barbara moves to the countryside with her pulp-fiction scribe husband Richard where they become entwined in a love triangle with their religious housekeeper Martha.

Jul 13 (6:10pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way.

Jul 13 (7:45pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Trans sex worker Michaela mentors her newly-out friend Adeline while pursuing motherhood in Vancouver. Production assistant Turner slides toward inceldom as his relationship falls apart.

Jul 14 (7pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

After a breakup, New York workaholic Jessica moves to London planning on being alone. She meets Felix who causes her to reconsider finding love again.

Jul 14 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi's one-woman show tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for equality, challenging audiences with uncomfortable truths when her pursuit of coexistence starts sounding absurd.

Jul 15 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?

Jul 15 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Decades of industrial waste and raw sewage have turned Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal into one of the nation's most toxic bodies of water. The arrival of a billion dollar EPA cleanup and a massive city-led rezoning herald a new era, but what's of value in a neighborhood and who gets to decide?

Jul 15 (7:15pm)

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

A powerful friendship develops between two young African-American men as they navigate the harrowing trials of reform school together.

Jul 16 (7pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

In Norse mythology, the three "Norns" are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans' futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. Folktales tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional "gap year" learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world.

Jul 16 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A vegan-goth high school student falls in love with her new English teacher and develops a problematic taste for human flesh.

Jul 17 (7pm)

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

A 39th generation ex-Orthodox rabbi embarks on a remarkable 21-year personal journey, also embracing life as a drag queen.

Jul 17 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Story of Shari Lewis' life and body of work.

Jul 17 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Feature documentary about wealth, inequality and the American Dream, viewed through the lens of the estate tax and the very personal story of a father and son at odds over what kind of inheritance we want to leave our kids and our country.

Jul 18 (6:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In a coastal Florida town threatened by an impending hurricane, locals prepare for a mandatory evacuation. As the last tourists depart and residents board-up their homes, a few wanderers choose to remain.

Jul 18 (7pm), Jul 19 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

The story of a queer South Asian nightclub performer living a double life, and a young, single father who works as a mechanic. When they meet, a search for identity is sparked.

Jul 18 (6pm), Jul 19 (3:15pm)

Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.

Jul 18 (7:15pm), Jul 19 (6:50pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.

Jul 18 (7:20pm), Jul 19 (7:20pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

To celebrate Lukas' victory at the martial arts tournament and Tomas' birthday party, their wives Juste and Ernesta organize a weekend at the summer house with a families. It was suppose to be a quiet weekend at countryside.

Jul 18 (7:10pm), Jul 19 (7:10pm), Jul 23 (7:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport trenchantly probes the legacy of Elizabeth Bouvia — a disabled California woman who, at the age of 26, sought "the right to die."

Jul 18 (7pm), Jul 19 (7pm), Jul 24 (6:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Heightened Scrutiny follows Chase Strangio, ACLU attorney and the first out trans person to argue before the Supreme Court, as he fights a high-stakes legal battle to overturn Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth (United States v. Skrmetti).

Jul 19 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Unseen in NYC for a decade, this Coney Island reverie captures the iconic Brooklyn boardwalk in beauteous 8mm black & white, interweaving loving portraits of locals and beachfront locales with poetry, found sounds, and music from Alice Coltrane & Duke Ellington.

Jul 20 (7pm), Jul 21 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

Jul 22 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.

Jul 23 (7pm)

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

The tale of 4 gay African-American friends in L.A: shy, virginal photographer Marcus, outgoing Lothario Hill, hot-to-trot rich kid newbie Dante, and fabulous drag diva Crystal.

Jul 23 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Exploring the controversial NBC series that caught potential child predators in sting operations, leading to arrests, and its eventual cancellation.

Jul 24 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?

Jul 25 (8:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A young woman struggles to reconcile her love for her boyfriend and for heroin, as she finds out that suicide is the only way for her boyfriend to forgive her for her misdeed.

Jul 25 (7:50pm), Jul 26 (7:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A Ukrainian platoon's mission: traverse a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. A journalist accompanies them, witnessing the ravages of war and the growing uncertainty about its conclusion.

Jul 25 (7pm), Jul 26 (7pm), Jul 27 (1:40pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

In Norse mythology, the three "Norns" are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans' futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. Folktales tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional "gap year" learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world.

Jul 25 (7pm)

Jul 26 (7pm), Jul 27 (1pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A curious student embarks on a journey of self-discovery, learning that the path, no matter how unfamiliar or daunting, is worthwhile.

Jul 26 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

The life story about Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba's most historic athlete.

Jul 27 (5pm)

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

Reedited footage from classic films. Ragtag draws from more than 300 film noirs from the 1940s and 1950s to reveal the intoxicating dreamlike nature of the genre, and Desire draws from melodramas from around the world.

Jul 29 (7pm)

Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. With tensions already flaring, an encounter with an unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh.

Jul 29 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley's inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album.

Jul 30 (7pm), Jul 31 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.

Aug 5 (6pm)

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

In 1975, New York City is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers and flexers finds common ground, and a way out.

Aug 12 (8:15pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.