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 December 4th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Fire Will Come - Intro with Director Oliver Laxe
Dec 5 (8:50pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Amador returns home to his aging mother after serving a sentence for arson. He tries to adapt to daily farm life and coping with the villagers' memories of his past actions.
Endless Cookie - Q&A with Directors Seth Scriver & Peter Scriver
Dec 5 (7:10pm), Dec 6 (7:10pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Two half-brothers, one Indigenous and one white, embark on a journey through time and place. They travel from their remote home in Shamattawa to the vibrant urban landscape of the 1980s.
Little Trouble Girls - Q&A with Director Urska Djukic
Dec 5 (6:55pm), Dec 6 (4:25pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
16-year-old Lucia joins Catholic school choir, befriends senior Ana-Maria. During choir retreat at convent, Lucia's attraction to a restoration worker creates tension with Ana-Maria and challenges her faith.
Rosemead - Q&A with Director Eric Lin (and others)
Dec 5 (1:30pm, 4pm, 5:45pm, 6:30pm), Dec 7 (1:30pm)
AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)
Inspired by a harrowing true story, Lucy Liu transforms in a riveting, career-redefining performance as an ailing woman who takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son.
This Ordinary Thing - Q&A with Director Nick Davis (and others)
Dec 5 (7pm), Dec 11 (7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Tells the story of non-Jews who helped save Jewish people across Europe during The Holocaust. The film combines never-before-seen archival footage with the testimonies of over forty different people who, working independently and at great risk to themselves and their families, saved thousands of Jewish strangers from almost certain death.
You Call This Progress?! - Q&A with Director Alyce Wittenstein
Dec 6 (7:30pm)
Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)
Humorous worst case scenarios about the near future. An irreverant kick in the ass to our political system.
Familiar Touch - Q&A with Actress Kathleen Chalfant & Carolyn Michelle
Dec 7 (12pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Cover-Up - Q&A with Director Laura Poitras
Dec 7 (2pm SOLD OUT)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the United States. Hersh's breakthrough reportage has brought to the public's attention many of the most damning constitutional wrongdoings and cover-ups.
Girlfriends - Q&A with Director Claudia Weill
Dec 7 (3:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Follows twentysomething Upper West Side photographer Susan who, alongside her poet roommate Anne, is trying to navigate the professional and romantic dead ends of 1970s city living.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, subject Ellen Jovin
Dec 7 (6pm), Dec 20 (5pm)
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.
Shttl - Q&A with Actor Moshe Lobel
Dec 7 (8pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.
Wake Up Dead Man - Q&A with Director Rian Johnson, moderator Bridget Everett
Dec 9 (6pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.
Atropia
Q&A with Actress Alia Shawkat, moderated by Aubrey Plaza
Dec 9 (7pm)
Q&A with Writer/Director Hailey Benton Gates
Dec 13 (7pm), Dec 14 (1:40pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows an aspiring actress working on a U.S. military base that simulates an Iraqi war zone.
Kaili Blues - Q&A with Director Bi Gan
Dec 10 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
Dead Man's Wire - Q&A with Writer Auston Kolodney, Actors Colman Domingo, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha'la
Dec 10 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.
Dance Freak - Q&A with Co-Directors Robby Rackleff & Alan Resnick
Dec 10 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A dangerous experiment goes awry resulting in a Dance Freak running wild.
Resurrection - Q&A with Director Bi Gan
Dec 10 (7pm), Dec 11 (7pm), Dec 12 (7:55pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In a society where people stops dreaming to extend their lifespan, some dangerous individuals still dream, warping the fabric of time. We experience five dreams, for each of the senses, each chronologically representing a period of cinema.
Resurrection - Q&A with Director Bi Gan
Dec 11 (6pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In a society where people stops dreaming to extend their lifespan, some dangerous individuals still dream, warping the fabric of time. We experience five dreams, for each of the senses, each chronologically representing a period of cinema.
Metropolitan - Q&A with Editor Christopher Tellefsen
Dec 12 (6:50pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
Speaking in Tongues - Q&A with subject Saxophonist David Murray
Dec 12 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Centered on the meeting of two generational masters – ascendant saxophone star David Murray and earthy drum magus Milford Graves – this rare documentary probes the roots of jazz, from Africa, through baptismal water and fire, to the eternal present of the improviser.
The King of Color - Q&A with Director Patrick Creadon
Dec 12 (7:15pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Biography of Larry Herbert, inventor of the Pantone Matching System, which established a universal worldwide language for color.
Serious People - Q&A with Directors Pasqual Gutierrez & Ben Mullinkosson
Dec 12 (6:45pm), Dec 13 (9:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A music video director, balancing work and impending fatherhood, employs a lookalike to take on his professional duties while he attends to personal responsibilities, pushing the boundaries of work-life separation.
Europe's New Faces - Q&A with Director Sam Abbas
Dec 12 (8pm), Dec 13 (8pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Observation of the migrant experience; from crossing the Mediterranean Sea out of Libya to settling in Paris-based squats. In a view free from prejudice, we quickly see how the experiences of migrants vary in extremes during the different stages in their journey to a better life.
Room Temperature - Q&A with Co-Writers/Co-Directors Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley
Dec 12 (9pm), Dec 14 (7:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A family's annual haunted house tradition becomes dominated by the father's obsessive vision, straining family dynamics as they prepare for Halloween visitors.
The Dating Game - Q&A with Director Violet Du Feng
Dec 12 (7pm), Dec 13 (4pm, 7pm), Dec 14 (1:30pm, 4:30pm), Dec 15 (6:30pm), Dec 17 (6:30pm), Dec 18 (6:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China's most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.
Where to Land - Q&A with Writer/Director Hal Hartley
Dec 13 (2pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up. His girlfriend thinks he's dying. Rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows gathers to say their last farewells.
The Menu - Q&A with Editor Christopher Tellefsen
Dec 14 (4:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Grey Gardens - Q&A with Co-Director/Editor Muffie Meyer, Editor/Producer Susan Froemke
Dec 14 (5:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
Song Sung Blue - Q&A with Actors Hugh Jackman & Kate Hudson
Dec 14 (7:30pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Lightning and Thunder, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together.
The Plague - Q&A with Actor Kayo Martin
Dec 15 (8:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.
L for Leisure - Q&A with Director Lev Kalman
Dec 15 (9pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Arthouse comedy set in 1992-3 following awkward graduate students on vacations all around the world.
Peter Hujar's Day - Q&A with Director Ira Sachs
Dec 17 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life.
The Voice of Hind Rajab - Q&A with Director Kaouther Ben Hania
Dec 17 (6:40pm), Dec 18 (6:40pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
Is This Thing On? - Q&A with Director Bradley Cooper
Dec 18 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
As their marriage unravels, Alex faces middle age and divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene. Meanwhile, his wife Tess confronts sacrifices made for their family, forcing them to navigate co-parenting and identities.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (S2 advance episode) - Q&A with Actor Walker Scobell
Dec 19 (5:30pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Demigod Percy Jackson leads a quest across America to prevent a war among the Olympian gods.
Rosemead - Q&A with Writer/Director Eric Lin, Actress Lucy Liu, Producer Mynette Louie
Dec 19 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Inspired by a harrowing true story, Lucy Liu transforms in a riveting, career-redefining performance as an ailing woman who takes drastic measures to protect her troubled teenage son.
Johnny Mnemonic - Intro with Director Robert Longo
Dec 19 (8:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
Crossing Delancey - Q&A with Writer Susan Sandler
Dec 20 (3:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Hundreds of Beavers - Q&A guests to be announced
Dec 20 (7:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, 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.
A Private Life - Q&A with Actress Jodie Foster
Jan 7 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.