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 10th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
Aparisyon (Apparition) - Q&A with Writer/Director Isabel Sandoval
Jul 10 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Story about nuns living in a remote convent during the Marcos years.
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Q&A with Director Eran Riklis
Jul 10 (7pm), Jul 11 (5pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A professor in revolutionary Iran secretly gathers her most dedicated students to read forbidden classics of Western literature.
Westhampton - Q&A with Writer/Director Christian Nilsson, Actress Roxanne Schiebergen
Jul 10 (7pm), Jul 11 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Haunted by an accident he caused in high school, a filmmaker is drawn back to his hometown where he is confronted by former friends and a community that disdains him as he tries to find peace with the hurt he left behind.
Remake - Q&A with Writer/Director Ross McElwee
Jul 10 (7:45pm), Jul 11 (5:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Ross McElwee explores time and memory through footage of his son Adrian, weaving their shared filmmaking past with an unfinished Hollywood remake of Sherman's March, creating a meditation on loss and documentation.
Barrio Triste - Q&A with Producers Esteban Zuluaga & Eric Kohn
Jul 10 (7:15pm), Jul 11 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter's camera to document their lives.
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass - Q&A with Writer/Director David Wain
Jul 10 (7:15pm with Actors John Slattery, Miles Gutierrez-Riley), Jul 11 (9:15pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
When her fiancé uses their "celebrity pass" agreement, Midwest bride Gail Daughtry travels to Hollywood seeking revenge by pursuing her own celebrity encounter.
Baby Doe - Q&A with Director Jessica Earnshaw
Jul 10 (7pm), Jul 11 (7pm), Jul 12 (3:45pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
As a young woman in a conservative Christian community, Gail gave birth alone and left her newborn in the woods. Decades later, she's arrested for murder, despite her claim that the baby was stillborn.
The Floaters - Q&A with Director Rachel Israel, Producer Shai Korman, Actor Jake Ryan
Jul 10 (4:30pm, 7pm), Jul 11 (4:30pm, 7pm), Jul 12 (4:30pm, 7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows struggling musician Nomi who accepts a last-resort job from her overachiever best friend Mara: mentoring misfit campers, the "Floaters," at their childhood Jewish summer camp.
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Q&A with Writer/Director Eran Riklis
Jul 11 (1:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)
A professor in revolutionary Iran gathers her most dedicated female students to study banned literary classics. Based on Azar Nafisi's beloved memoir.
Lingua Franca - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Isabel Sandoval
Jul 11 (2:15pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
An undocumented Filipina trans woman falls in love in Brooklyn.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Q&A with Actress Brooke Adams
Jul 11 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
Moonglow - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Isabel Sandoval
Jul 11 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Corrupt female detective secretly orchestrates daring heist. Unexpectedly paired with tenacious partner investigating her own crime. Forced to mislead him while staying ahead to crack the very crime that she orchestrated.
Khanevade: Portraits of Iranian Americans - Q&A with Director Armon Mahdavi (and others)
Jul 12 (12:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
This is a show of 3 films.
Norouz: Persian Spring Festival (1961). Time capsule of the Bay Area in the 1960s, showcasing the presence of Iranian American families and communities nearly 20 years before the revolution.
Best in the West (2006). Examines the lives of four lifelong friends who studied in the United States with humor, warmth, and bittersweetness.
Untitled, Jackson Heights (2024) by Armon Mahdavi. Personal documentary examines public spaces in Queens through a poignant, epistolary voiceover correspondence from a mother to her child.
Exposed - Q&A with Director Beth B
Jul 12 (5pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
EXPOSED profiles eight women and men who use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos that our society holds dear. These cutting edge performers - operating on the far edge of burlesque - combine politics, satire, and physical comedy to question the very concept of 'normal.'
We Met at Grossinger's - Q&A with Director Paula Eiselt, Producer Robert Friedman, Susan Etess (granddaughter of Grossinger's founders)
Jul 12 (7pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A nostalgic exploration of the Borscht Belt's golden era through Grossinger's Resort, once the crown jewel of Jewish vacation destinations in the Catskills, from its heyday to decline.
Daylight - Q&A with Director Jon Kasbe, film subject Joe Garcia
Jul 14 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Serving a life sentence, Joe Garcia finds an unexpected lifeline in the music of a pop superstar.
Her Private Hell - Q&A with Writer/Director Nicolas Winding Refn
Jul 15 (7pm SOLD OUT, 7:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A hypnotic, unhinged thriller with an original story promising plenty of glamour, sex, and violence.
Glowing - Q&A with Director Beth B
Jul 15 (7pm), Jul 26 (5:45pm), Aug 1 (5pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
From love and loss to identity and power, from disabilities to the echoes of childhood trauma to the scars of war, Glowing dares to confront what lies beneath. Yet even in its darkest moments, it refuses despair — illuminating flickers of resilience, liberation, and hope. In the face of the unknown... we burn brighter.
At Home in Utopia - Q&A with Director Michal Goldman
Jul 16 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)
During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops.
Rhythm is a Dancer - Q&A with Writer/Director Lauren Caster, Actor Tate Donovan
Jul 16 (7pm), Jul 17 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A dancer facing career decline returns home to meet her biological father. Raised by her lesbian mother through insemination, she navigates family complexities while bonding with elderly coworkers who help her find herself.
A Brief History of Chasing Storms - Q&A with Director Curtis Miller
Jul 16 (7:30pm)
UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens)
A history of the tornado as both a destructive weather event and an American icon.
La Bamba - Intro by Actor Lou Diamond Phillips
Jul 16 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early Native Latino American rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
American Pachuco - Q&A with Director David Alvarado, film subject Luis Valdez
Jul 17 (6:45pm with Lou Diamond Phillips), Jul 18 (4:30pm, 7:15pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Luis Valdez elevates Chicano narratives to cinema through Zoot Suit and La Bamba, overcoming political and industry pushback to create landmark films that broaden and honor America's cultural story.
The Kidnapping of Arabella - Q&A with Writer/Director Carolina Cavalli
Jul 17 (6:45pm), Jul 18 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
An Italian woman named Holly is convinced she's the wrong version of herself until meeting a 7-year-old girl who changes her perspective.
40 Watts From Nowhere - Q&A with Director Sue Carpenter
Jul 17 (7pm), Jul 18 (7:30pm), Jul 19 (1pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Frustrated by what she was hearing on commercial radio, Sue Carpenter built a 40-watt FM station in 1995 and ran it out of her apartment in Los Angeles, exploiting a legal case that allowed hundreds of low-power illegal radio operators to proliferate throughout the country and gave birth to the legal LPFM movement.
Can We Kick It? - Q&A with Director Akbar Majeed, Producer Theresa Majeed
Jul 18 (3pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan)
Explores soccer through the lens of Black culture, community, and identity. As the excitement of the 2026 FIFA World Cup builds toward the Final, the film invites audiences into a timely conversation about history, representation, opportunity, and the future of the world's game in America.
Fantasy Life - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Matthew Shear
Jul 18 (4:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan)
An actress falls for the anxious law school dropout babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.
Sheep in the Box - Q&A with Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
Jul 20 (6:30pm), Jul 23 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in the near future, Otone Komoto works as an architect. She is married to Kensuke Komoto, who runs a construction company. The married couple decide to welcome a humanoid robot into their home as their son.
Characters Disappearing - Q&A with Director Connor Sen Warnick
Jul 20 (7pm), Jul 25 (4:30pm), Jul 26 (3:15pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
New York City, 1971. As Mei, Chris and Leonard trace differing paths through this melancholic vision of the Asian American Movement, collective paranoia rises as those around them begin to vanish without explanation.
American Doctor - Q&A with Director Thaer Ahmad, film subjects Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
Jul 21 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Footloose - Q&A with Actor Kevin Bacon
Jul 21 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
A big city teenager moves to a small town where Rock and Roll music and dancing have been banned by backward local parents and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Q&A with Creator Akiva Goldsman, Actors Anson Mount, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, and Carol Kane
Jul 21 (7pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A prequel to Star Trek (1966), this series follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike.
Tinsman Road - Q&A with Director Robbie Banfitch
Jul 22 (6:30pm, 10pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
In the backwoods of New Jersey, a young man navigates the serpentine mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home.
Manila's Finest - Q&A with Director Raymond Red, Actor Piolo Pascual
Jul 22 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set during the first quarter storm in the 1970s, policemen Homer, Conrad, and Billy are consumed by the murder case of troublemaking teenagers in the slums.
Josie and the Pussycats - Pre-screening Q&A with Writer/Directors Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont
Jul 22 (9pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music.
Changing Lanes - Q&A with Director Ben Wolf and others
Jul 23 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
This documentary about the fight for safer streets and community-led change follows a grassroots campaign in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, after a beloved teacher was killed in a hit-and-run crash on a dangerous four-lane roadway.
Sheep in the Box - Q&A with Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
Jul 23 (8pm)
AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)
Set in the near future, Otone Komoto works as an architect. She is married to Kensuke Komoto, who runs a construction company. The married couple decide to welcome a humanoid robot into their home as their son.
Amoeba - Q&A with Director Siyou Tan
Jul 24 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In a repressive city-state, a tomboy schoolgirl persuades three classmates at an all-girls school to rebel by forming a triad gang.
A Sad and Beautiful World - Q&A with Writer/Director Cyril Aris
Jul 24 (7pm), Jul 25 (7pm), Jul 26 (2:40pm)
Across three decades, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family in Lebanon, or leave their home amid the country's unfolding tragedies.
Hatching - Q&A with Director Hanna Bergholm
Jul 27 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A young gymnast, who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all.
Christine (2016) - Q&A with Director Antonio Campos, Actress Rebecca Hall
Jul 28 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
So Far from India - Intro by Director Mira Nair
Jul 28 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Two years after his arranged marriage and emigration to the United States, a young husband returns to India to reunite with his wife, meet his baby son, and visit his family and in-laws before going back to New York City.
The Great Experiment - Q&A with Directors Stephen Maing & Eric Daniel Metzger
Jul 28 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
More than 200 years after George Washington described the United States' new system of democracy as the last great experiment in promoting human happiness in civil society, filmmakers Steve Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar check up on how that is unfolding for our indivisible Republic.
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over - Q&A with film subject Lydia Lunch
Jul 30 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Over a retrospective of Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric spoken word performance and music.
Welcome II The Terrordome - Q&A with Writer/Director Ngozi Onwurah
Jul 31 (7pm), Aug 1 (7pm)
BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Racial violence breaks out in a huge, black ghetto - triggered by a white woman living there with a black man.
The Samurai and the Prisoner - Q&A with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jul 31 (6:05pm), Aug 2 (2:40pm), Aug 3 (6:05pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.
Galaxies (screens with Uncut Gems) - Q&A with Director Aidan Sullivan
Jul 31 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Out in the New Jersey suburbs, a teenage weed dealer succumbs to a series of misfortunes.
Wild Inside - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Jul 31 (6:30pm), Aug 1 (4pm, 6:30pm), Aug 2 (4pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, film subject Ellen Jovin
Aug 1 (4:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, 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.
El Norte - Q&A with Writer/Director Gregory Nava
Aug 1 (6pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte."
The Projectionist - Q&A with Director Alexandre Rockwell, Actors Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kasi Lemmons, Karyn Parsons, Kevin Corrigan, David Proval, Cinematographer Sam Motamendi, Composer Richard Edson
Aug 1 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In a forgotten theater, a haunted man's past flickers back to life-forcing a final reckoning.
The Samurai and the Prisoner - Q&A with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Aug 2 (4:15pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.
No Picnic - Q&A with Writer/Director Philip Hartman
Aug 3 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Macabee Cohen, whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes.
Mississippi Masala - Intro with Director Mira Nair
Aug 5 (8pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
After Dark, My Sweet - Q&A with Actor Jason Patric
Aug 5 (9:30pm), Aug 6 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.
Wild Inside - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Aug 6 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.
The Fountain - Q&A with Writer/Director Darren Aronofsky
Aug 7 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.
Cookie Queens - Q&A with Writer/Director Alysa Nahmias
Aug 7 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
It's Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling "Cookie Queen," navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.
In the Glow of Darkness - Q&A with Director Tucker Bennett, Composer Chris Corrente
Aug 7 (9:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Intersecting stories unfold in the cyberpunk city of San Zokyo, where a young hacker takes on the corporation behind Meme, a drug that mines users' psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma - Q&A with Writer/Director Jane Schoenbrun
Aug 7 (9:30pm), Aug 8 (7:45pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A director making a slasher sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film's 'final girl,' leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos.
Session 9 - Q&A with Writer/Director Brad Anderson, Writer/Actor Stephen Gevedon
Aug 11 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
American Doctor - Q&A with Director Poh Si Teng, Producers Kirstine Barford & Reem Haddad
Aug 11 (7pm), Aug 12 (7:15pm), Aug 13 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut - Q&A with Writer/Director Todd Stephens, Producer Karen Jaroneski
Aug 14 (7:10pm with Actress Sara Rue), Aug 15 (7:10pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Aug 15 (1:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, 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.
A Bright Future - Q&A with Director Lucía Garibaldi
Aug 21 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Smart, inquisitive Elisa lands a job placement up North. Though it sounds perfect, there's one problem: nobody who goes there ever returns.
Lockjaw - Q&A with Writer/Director Sabrina Greco, Actress Blu Hunt
Aug 21 (7pm), Aug 22 (9:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Raina, trapped in a car accident, finds herself drawn to a manipulative magician, whose illusions mirror her dysfunction. Their relationship worsens, leading to a dark exploration of guilt, attraction, and fractured friendships.
Dreams in Nightmares - Q&A with Writer/Director Shatara Michelle Ford and others
Aug 21 (7:15pm), Aug 22 (7:15pm), Aug 23 (4:20pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Three friends in their mid-thirties as they road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
Last Train to Fortune - Q&A with Actors Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters, James Paxton
Sep 17 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows Cecil Peachtree, a schoolteacher, and Dooley, an outlaw, as they strike a deal and develop an odd friendship along the road to Fortune after having to deal with gunfights, jailbreaks and saloon gals on the way.
Werewolf in a Women's Prison - Q&A with Director Jeff Leroy
Sep 17 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
When camping with her boyfriend, Sarah is attacked by a werewolf. She wakes up in a corrupt prison only to find out her boyfriend has been torn apart and she is the only suspect.