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 April 4th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

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.

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.

Apr 4 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

The latest documentary from disabled filmmaker Alexander Freeman captures his own unexpected journey into parenthood prompting difficult questions, and confronting common assumptions about autonomy, self-determination, and independence along the way.

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.

Apr 4 (7:20pm), Apr 5 (7:20pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

It tells the story of Janice, the mother of a teenager who shot and killed three of his classmates.

Apr 4 (7pm), Apr 5 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.

Apr 4 (7:15pm), Apr 5 (7:15pm), Apr 6 (3:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

After fourty years of solitude, a spirited elderly hermit opens his life to young female director as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness he calls home.

Apr 5 (4pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

The latest documentary from disabled filmmaker Alexander Freeman captures his own unexpected journey into parenthood prompting difficult questions, and confronting common assumptions about autonomy, self-determination, and independence along the way.

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.

Apr 5 (5pm), Apr 6 (2:30pm)

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

Pays homage to the Café's 41 years of existence in the heart of Greenwich Village. Mr. Jacobsohn became a permanent fixture at the Café over the years, capturing many of the most memorable moments, and some not so memorable ones. The film features interviews and recollections by Eve Ensler, singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega, David Amram, and Arturo O'Farrill.

Apr 6 (1:30pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Aurora, the daughter of a religious leader, enters into a secret affair that changes her life. She tries to please everyone but when it's time for a lavish wedding anniversary celebration, an uninvited guest arrives.

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.

Apr 6 (7:30pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A hedge fund manager resorts to burglary after losing his job, targeting wealthy neighbors to maintain his family's lifestyle, but makes a fateful error breaking into the wrong home.

Apr 7 (7:30pm with Walton Goggins), Apr 11 (6:50pm with Lois Smith), Apr 12 (6:50pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A stranger crashes a party, sparking a comedy of errors, and a reordering of life.

Apr 8 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Apr 8 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Follows Elvira as she battles against her gorgeous stepsister in a realm where beauty reigns supreme. She resorts to extreme measures to captivate the prince, amidst a ruthless competition for physical perfection.

Apr 8 (12pm), Apr 10 (7pm with Perri Peltz)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Exposes the real-world consequences of dangerous social media algorithms that exploit and endanger vulnerable young users.

Apr 9 (6:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Avenue, Manhattan)

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

Apr 9 (8pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.

Apr 10 (7pm), Apr 11 (7:15pm)

AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, 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.

Apr 10 (7:30pm)

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

Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

Apr 10 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Apr 11 (7pm), Apr 12 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

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.

Apr 12 (4:45pm)

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.

Apr 12 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

French filmmaker Armel Hostiou discovers he has a double in Kinshasa. Someone has created a fake Facebook profile in his name to hustle aspiring actors. So Armel heads to Congo's vast capital to track him down.

Apr 15 (7pm), Apr 16 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Investigative feature documentary about what really fuels global commerce: corruption. For years a company with jet-set style and dirty hands operated in the shadows of the global oil industry with total impunity, paying multi-million dollar bribes to some of the biggest companies in the world.

Apr 17 (6:30pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Brilliant singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco balances her passion for creating music with raising children. An intimate glimpse into her unique artistry and modern family life.

Apr 17 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.

Apr 17 (6:30pm), Apr 18 (6:15pm)

Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

Apr 18 (7:05pm), Apr 19 (7:05pm)

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

Nora, a former musician, settles in suburbia to raise her child. When her husband travels for work, she navigates single parenthood, a new home, and lingering musical aspirations through whimsical music video fantasies.

Apr 18 (7:15pm), Apr 19 (5:20pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father's sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.

Apr 18 (7:50pm), Apr 19 (6pm), Apr 20 (2:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.

Apr 18 (7pm), Apr 19 (7pm), Apr 20 (6pm), Apr 24 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Vicky Du lovingly writes the history of her family's encounters with political violence and intergenerational trauma. Through an assemblage of family keepsakes and intimate interviews with relatives, Du tells a story that strives to encompass the myriad, complicated truths of her family.

Apr 20 (12:40pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Karloff, examining his illustrious 60-year career in the entertainment industry and his enduring legacy as one of the icons of 20th century popular culture.

Apr 20 (5pm)

Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)

Vafan Cuolo the Italian Ninja takes over Brighton with his milita of kung-fu fighters. Ryu, a young man just out of a care home, is surprised to discover that he is Brighton's last hope. Ryu is the Chosen One and he must find The Ganja Master, learn the ancient mystical art of Ganja Boxing and defeat Vafan; liberating Brighton.

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.

Apr 22 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum.

Apr 22 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Jean Cocteau: a multi-talented artist who excelled in film, poetry, novels, and design. This documentary explores his diverse career, personal life, and lasting impact on 20th-century art and culture.

Apr 24 (7pm), Apr 25 (7pm), Apr 26 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.

Apr 24 (7:15pm), Apr 25 (7:15pm), Apr 26 (3:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Sarah and Tom are in deep financial trouble. Their situation takes a terrifying nosedive with the shocking behavior of their uninvited dinner guest, Jessica.

Apr 25 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Industry City, a Brooklyn industrial area, sparks conflict when purchased by global developers. Residents, city officials, and planners clash over differing visions for the city's urban development future.

Apr 25 (7pm), Apr 26 (4pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

When tragedy strikes, an unexpected bond forms between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Far from home, their labor-filled lives intertwine as they grieve and search for familial connections.

Apr 25 (6pm), Apr 26 (3:15pm)

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

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.

Apr 27 (2pm)

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

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Apr 27 (4:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A bankrupt Taiwanese man loses everything including girlfriend. He still has a key to his luxury condo, where he grows and smokes marijuana. He spends time with a woman on suicide hotline and a lingerie clad woman selling cigarettes.

Apr 27 (5pm, 7:10pm)

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

Shattering the myth of Jewish passivity in WW2, these last surviving Partisans tell their stories of resistance against the Nazis and their collaborators in FOUR WINTERS.

Apr 29 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A documentary about the director's maternal grandfather.

May 2 (8:10pm), May 3 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.

May 6 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

In New York City's most quickly gentrifying neighborhoods, a group of fearless residents, activists, and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords and developers for the basic human right to a home.

May 7 (7pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Three men take an extended weekend hunting trip, where an initial spell of hunting success sharpens their instincts and stirs a sense of rivalry. But one day all animals vanish without a trace. As the forest turns eerily quiet, the men become obsessed with the idea that the hunt must continue.

May 13 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

In 1988, Deaf students at Gallaudet University protested until the school appointed its first Deaf president, Dr. I. King Jordan, marking a pivotal moment for Deaf rights and representation.

May 17 (7pm), May 18 (2:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

British Invasion icons The Zombies reflect on paving 60 years and counting of their musical path from teenage friends to legends in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.