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 March 14th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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The Lost Daughter - Q&A with Production Designer Inbal Weinberg
Mar 14 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
Rez Ball - Q&A with Director Sydney Freeland
Mar 14 (7pm)
National Museum of the American Indian (1 Bowling Green, Manhattan)
The Chuska Warriors, a Native American high school basketball team from New Mexico, must band together after losing their star player if they want to keep their quest for a state championship alive.
The Actor - Q&A with Actor Andre Holland
Mar 14 (7:10pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
When New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio, he loses his memory and finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town where he struggles to get back home and reclaim what he's lost.
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.
Young Hearts - Q&A with Director Anthony Schatteman
Mar 14 (7:30pm), Mar 15 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Elias develops feelings for his new neighbor Alexander. He soon realizes he's falling in love for the first time.
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
The Secret of Kells - Q&A with Director Tomm Moore
Mar 15 (3:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.
Palindromes - Q&A with Director Todd Solondz, Producer Mike S. Ryan
Mar 16 (1:40pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
The Room Next Door - Q&A with Production Designer Inbal Weinberg
Mar 16 (4pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow 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.
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.
Hundreds of Beavers - Q&A with Actor Mike Wesolowski, Jon Truei
Mar 17 (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.
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.
Moving Stories - Q&A with Editors Mikael Södersten, Producer Cornelia Ravenal
Mar 19 (6:30pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Six dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance company travel the world, working with young people who've experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees.
The Assessment - Q&A with Director Fleur Fortuné
Mar 19 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
In the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple's seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.
Stranger By The Lake - Q&A with Director Alain Guiraudie
Mar 19 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.
Aum: The Cult at the End of the World - Q&A with Directors Ben Braun, Chiaki Yanagimoto
Mar 19 (7pm), Mar 20 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
On March 20,1995 a deadly gas attack in Tokyo subway sent nation and its people into chaos. This exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, who is responsible for attack, involves the participation of those who lived through the horror as it unfolded.
Misericordia - Q&A with Director Alain Guiraudie
Mar 20 (7:30pm), Mar 21 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.
Being Maria - Q&A with Actor Matt Dillon, Producer Marielle Duigou
Mar 20 (7:15pm), Mar 21 (7pm), Mar 22 (12:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on her life and career.
The Assessment - Q&A with Director Fleur Fortuné, Actress Elizabeth Olson
Mar 20 (8pm), Mar 22 (7:30pm)
Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)
In the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple's seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.
Amores Perros - Q&A with Actor Humberto Busto
Mar 20 (8pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
Misericordia - Q&A with Director Alain Guiraudie
Mar 21 (6:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.
Bob Trevino Likes It - Q&A with Writer/Director Tracie Laymon, Actors John Leguizamo and French Stewart
Mar 21 (7pm), Mar 22 (2pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life.
The Siren - Q&A with Director Sepideh Farsi
Mar 22 (4:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
After an Iraqi missile strike, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos. Fourteen-year-old Omid, who works as a food delivery boy, is searching for his missing brother - and for an escape route out of the besieged city.
Cutie and the Boxer - Q&A with Composer Yasuaki Shimizu
Mar 22 (5pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.
Tehran Without Permission - Q&A with Director Sepideh Farsi
Mar 23 (2:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Via a mixture of characters and cityscapes, Farsi's covert filming reveals a city beset with social and political tensions, yet held aloft by the indomitable spirit and character of its population.
Red Rose - Q&A with Director Sepideh Farsi
Mar 23 (4:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Tehran, June 2009. Amid protests against rigged elections, two generations find shelter. Using technology, they connect with the outside world as an unlikely love story unfolds.
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.
The Friend - Q&A with Directors Scott McGhee and David Siegel, Bing (Great Dane)
Mar 25 (7:15pm with Naomi Watts), Mar 28 (6:15pm), Mar 29 (6:15pm), Mar 30 (5:15pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows a story of love, friendship, grief and healing, about a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend and mentor.
Penn F***ing Station, The Road To Magnsanti, A Night At The Garden - Q&A with Directors Claire Read, John Wilson, Marshall Curry
Mar 26 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
PFS: In NYC, the debate over how to fix Penn Station erupts between power brokers and residents. But what's at stake is not just a transit hub; it's the future of the city.
Road: In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, "Magnasanti" exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design.
Night @ Garden: Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II.
Secret Mall Apartment - Q&A with Director Jeremy Workman
Mar 26 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.
Amour - Q&A with Editor Monika Willi
Mar 28 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Thank You Very Much - Q&A with Alex Braverman
Mar 28 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Documentary about performance artist and "song and dance man" Andy Kaufman
Tar - Q&A with Editor Monika Willi
Mar 29 (2pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Untitled - Intro by Editor Monika Willi
Mar 29 (5:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa.
Maurice - Q&A with Director James Ivory moderated by Ira Sachs
Apr 2 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Psycho Therapy - Q&A with Director Tolga Karacelik, Actors Steve Buscemi, John Magaro, Britt Lower
Apr 2 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
V13 - Q&A with Director Richard Ledes, Actor Alan Cumming
Apr 3 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Vienna, 1913, Europe is on the brink of WWI. Two young men become friends: Hugo, a musician from a privileged family, tries psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud; Adolf, a struggling vegetarian artist, falls in love with German nationalism.
Gazer - Q&A with Writer/Director Ryan J. Sloan, Actress Ariella Mastroianni
Apr 3 (7pm), Apr 4 (7pm), Apr 5 (7pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Frankie, a young mother with dyschronometria, struggles to perceive time. Using cassette tapes for guidance, she takes a risky job from a mysterious woman to support her family, unaware of the dark consequences that await.
Siméon - Q&A with Director Euzhan Palcy
Apr 4 (6:35pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.
A Man And A Woman - Q&A with Director Claude Lelouch
Apr 4 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
Midnight Cowboy - Q&A with Cinematographer Adam Holender
Apr 5 (5pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Palindromes - Q&A with Director Todd Solondz and special guest (cast & crew)
Apr 6 (4:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
The Teacher - Q&A with Writer/Director Farah Nabulsi
Apr 11 (7pm), Apr 12 (7pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.
The Sealed Soil - Q&A with Director Marva Nabili
Apr 21 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits.