Here's a list of upcoming special event type screenings at theaters in New York from August 4th and beyond. These are the screenings that have actors, directors or producers at them to answer questions from critics and audience members. With the SAG-AFTRA strike going on, there may be a lesser amount of actors at upcoming screenings. Nevertheless, here's the updated list with mostly directors. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Passages - Q&A with Director Ira Sachs
August 4 (7:05pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in Paris, this seductive drama tells the story of Tomas and Martin, a gay couple whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas begins a passionate affair with Agathe, a younger woman he meets after completing his latest film.
Our Body - Q&A with Director Claire Simon
August 4 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Cinema is no stranger to exposing women's bodies. But rarely do we experience their corporeal reality, through sickness and health, aging and change. With access to the examination rooms of a gynecology clinic in Paris, Claire Simon trains her compassionate eye and ear to doctor-patient interactions, both intimate and epic: a young girl candidly divulges an unwanted pregnancy; a trans woman reveals the physiological and emotional challenges of transition; a couple shares their long struggle with infertility; a doctor holds a patient's hand while breaking the news of terminal illness. Unexpectedly, the filmmaker herself becomes a patient, plunging this omnibus of emotionally engaging stories into even more personal depths.
Klondike - Q&A with Director Maryna Er Gorbach
August 4, 5, 6 (7pm shows)
Angelika Film Center (18 Houston Street, Manhattan)
After flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
Mod Fuck Explosion - Intro by Cinematographer & Production Designer Todd Verow and Actor Desi del Valle
August 5 (12:15am)
IFC Center - (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Mod Fuck Explosion is about a young girl named London who is trying to find meaning in the world, or a leather jacket of her very own. Unaccepted by the Mods or the Asian biker gang, she tries to find her own path through life.
Tokyo Pop - Q&A with Director Fran Rubel Kuzui
August 5 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Disillusioned with her life in New York, bleach-blonde rocker Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it as a singer. While hostessing at a karaoke bar, she meets Hiro, whose fledgling band is hungry for their big break. When Hiro enlists Wendy to be the band’s lead singer, the two form a romantic and musical connection that leads to unexpected if unsustainable fame.
There All Along: Women of Trinidad & Tobago Black Power - Talkback with Director Keisha Thompson
August 5 (8:30pm) - part of First Saturdays
Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn)
The story of women who participated in the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago. The film reflects on their impact through firsthand accounts.
The English Patient - Intro by Producer Paul Zaentz
August 6 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In a field hospital in Italy, Hana, a nurse from Canada, is caring for a pilot who was horribly burned in a plane wreck; he has no identification and cannot remember his name, so he's known simply as "the English Patient," thanks to his accent. When the hospital is forced to evacuate, Hana determines en route that the patient shouldn't be moved far due to his fragile condition, so the two are left in a monastery to be picked up later. In time, Hana begins to piece together the patient's story from the shards of his memories.
The Eternal Memory - Q&A with Director Maite Alberdi
August 8 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In their youth, Augusto and Paulina had vibrant cultural vocations – he as a television social commentator and reporter who called for his nation to never forget its traumatic political legacy, she as an acclaimed actress and later Minister of Culture for Chile. Now in their autumn years, they contend with Augusto's Alzheimer's diagnosis and Paulina's fears of impending loss.
Shiva Baby - Q&A with Director Emma Seligman and Actor Danny Deferrari
August 9 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
While at a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student has an awkward encounter with her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend.
Shiva Baby - Q&A with Director Emma Seligman and Producers Lizzie Shapiro, Kieran Altmann, and Katie Schiller
August 10 (7:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
While at a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student has an awkward encounter with her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend.
All I Wanna Do - Intro and Q&A with Director Sarah Kernochan, Producers Ira Deutchman and Peter Newman, and Cinematographer Tony Janelli
August 11 (6:20pm)
Metrograph (
During the early 1960s, high school teen Odette Sinclair is transferred, to her great dismay, from a coed institution to an all-girls New England boarding school. After learning that plans are in the works to merge Miss Godard's School for Girls with a nearby boys institution, she and her sorority sister, Verena von Stefan, go on strike against the school. Throughout, the pair are pitted against meddling school monitor Abigail Sawyer.
The Eternal Memory - Q&A with Director Maite Alberdi and film subject Paulina Urrutia
August 11 (7pm), August 12 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In their youth, Augusto and Paulina had vibrant cultural vocations – he as a television social commentator and reporter who called for his nation to never forget its traumatic political legacy, she as an acclaimed actress and later Minister of Culture for Chile. Now in their autumn years, they contend with Augusto's Alzheimer's diagnosis and Paulina's fears of impending loss.
Anchorage - Q&A with Director Scott Monahan, Actor Dakota Loesch
August 11, 12, 13 (7pm shows)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Two brothers attempt to drive a trunk full of stolen opioids from Florida to Alaska to cash in big in the land of gold. A split-second act of violence derails their trip and sets them on a crash course for tragedy.
King Coal
Q&A with Director Elaine McMillion Sheldon, DP Curren Sheldon, Producers Diane Becker and Shane Boris
August 11 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Producers Diane Becker and Shane Boris
August 12 (6pm)
Q&A with Director Elaine McMillion Sheldon
August 13 (6pm)
DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, the myths it has created. While deeply situated in Central Appalachia, the film transcends time and place, emphasizing the ways in which all are connected through an immersive mosaic of belonging, ritual, and imagination. Emerging from the long shadows of the coal mines, King Coal untangles the pain from the beauty, and illuminates the innately human capacity for change.
Aurora's Sunrise - Q&A with Director Inna Sahakyan
August 13 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In 1915, Aurora Mardiganian, at only 14 years old, lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Blending vivid animation that captures the arc of her story, archival photos, interviews with Aurora as an elderly woman (she died at age 93), and footage from the silent film, Aurora's Sunrise captures the fascinating story of an immigrant, author, actress, and advocate for survivors of the Armenian genocide.
Out of Time: The Material Issue Story - Q&A with Director Balin Schneider
August 14 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Out of Time: The Material Issue Story examines the tragic story of a rock band on the cusp of superstardom cut short by front man Jim Ellison's suicide. The film tells the story of Material Issue, a power pop trio from Chicago that was literally out of time, sandwiched between the post-punk era of the 80’s and the alternative rock movement of the 90’s searching for its identity in the gritty world of rock and roll.
Bad Things - Q&A with Director Stewart Thorndike
August 15 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie and mysterious grifter Fran, whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel's seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.
Soñadora with Director Stacy Pascal Gaspard
Ourika! with Director Xenia Matthews
August 16 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
A love letter to the narrative, experimental, and documentary works of Black filmmakers, this program of shorts highlights the visual aesthetics of Black non-binary and women filmmakers of the 21st century. Influenced by artists such as Sara Gómez, Julie Dash, and Barbara McCullough—as well as alternative formats like The Arsenio Hall Show—these films are an expressive ode to the revolutionary visual aesthetics, craft, and practice of Black filmmaking.
Viva - Q&A with Director Anna Biller
August 17 (8:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Two suburban couples experiment with sex, drugs and bohemia in early 1970's Los Angeles.
Mutt - Q&A with Director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz
August 18 (6:50pm), August 19 (6:50pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Within the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life.
Batang West Side - Q&A with Director Lav Diaz
August 20 (5pm)
Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)
Shot in color on 35mm around Jersey City, BATANG WEST SIDE is a noirish police procedural that examines Filipino American immigrant communities and the myriad social and psychological problems they face.
Bad Things - Q&A with Director Stewart Thorndike
August 22 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal drags her there in the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They are joined by their amiable friend Maddie and mysterious grifter Fran, whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel's seductive embrace and start doing bad things to each other.
Daliland - Q&A with Director Mary Harron
August 31 (6pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
Here's a video from a Q&A after a screening of What Comes Around with Director Amy Redford. The screening took place August 1st at the Museum of the Moving Image. What Comes Around is being distributed by IFC Films and can be seen at IFC Center beginning August 4th.