Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from September 26th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Sep 26 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

As the Ukraine war moves into its third year, a surprising story of resilience: how children in Ukraine are surviving the Russian war machine that has targeted them and their families. Life behind the frontlines as seen through the eyes of the children who will inherit a country struggling to survive a brutal invasion.

Sep 27 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

Sep 27 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

Sep 27-28 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

The year of 1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.

Sep 27-29 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Darla Peterson and a sentient kombucha scoby named Mother try to raise the money to pay off Darla's tax debt using Mother's ability to grant orgasms.

Sep 27-28 (6pm), Sep 29 (3pm), Sep 30 (8pm Cohen only)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

As the conversation about the war in Gaza (and the larger issues surrounding Israeli-Palestinian relations) becomes increasingly vitriolic, unhelpful and at times unhinged, powerful alternative voices are emerging. A growing chorus of Palestinians and Israeli Jews are speaking up – often in cross-cultural pairs – against war, occupation and violence, and for peace, justice, empathy and sanity.

Sep 27-29 (1:30pm, 4pm, 7pm), Oct 1-3 (2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm)

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

A Japanese restaurant serves whale meat, while the industry declines. Experts discuss environmental issues, resource management and alternative protein sources at international conferences.

Sep 27 (8pm SOLD OUT), Sep 28 (3pm, 8pm), Sep 29 (12pm)

Sep 30 (6:15pm), Oct 1 (6:15pm), Oct 2 (8pm), Oct 3 (8:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Like many areas in the United States, the City of Baltimore has been plagued by gun violence. Amid the George Floyd uprising, Brandon Scott, a young reform-minded leader, is elected mayor. His hope is to lower violence in the city with a new public health-focused approach rather than relying only on policing as he feels others have done.

Sep 28 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.

Sep 28 (8:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Sep 29 (5:45pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Once famous model Lou Andreas Sand recalls her past as she tries to find success in the New York modeling world, her affair with ad exec Mark, her friendship with fashion photographer Aaron Reinhardt, and her downward spiral.

Sep 30 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

When their Lower East Side building comes under siege by a predatory landlord, a young filmmaker and an aging punk artist forge an unlikely friendship. As the two women collaborate on a portrait of a creative life amidst NYC's cultural crisis, they discover what it means to be neighbors.

Sep 30 (7:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

Examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi and others released their own records and booked their own shows—without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny.

Oct 1 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Two horror fans buy a creepy duplex to shoot a film. They find cult members gathering outside in a trance. The friends investigate the phenomenon, their obsession escalating as they pursue real-life horror thrills.

Oct 1 (7:30pm SOLD OUT)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. Hoping to heal, she returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands where she grew up.

Oct 2 (6:30pm)

Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)

A person's ZIP code has been shown to have a greater impact on health and well-being than their genetic code, affecting access to education, transportation, and wealth. How is this possible? The provocative documentary ZIP Code Matters boldly asks the question and gets profound and insightful answers from some of the nation's leading policymakers, nonprofit executives, public health officials and social justice activists.

Oct 2 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

MEN IN BLACK follows the exploits of agents Kay and Jay, members of a top-secret organization established to monitor alien activity on Earth. The two MiB find themselves in the middle of the deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

Oct 2-4 (6:45pm), Oct 5 (1:50pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Trailblazing food writer and best-selling memoirist Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America's food system. Reaching across political and social divides, she meets with small farmers, ranchers, and chefs risking it all to survive. Through Reichl's eyes, we see the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.

Oct 3 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics and haphazard production methods were both a driving force of the band's early rise and the cause of his eventual crash landing.

Oct 4 (6pm)

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

Joins Belafonte during the last twelve years of his life, as the legendary artist and civil rights leader embarks on a deeply personal and reflective journey, while inspiring the next generation of entertainers and activists to disrupt injustice across the globe.

Oct 4-5 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In the wake of a life-changing diagnosis, the Pelletier family embark on a breathtaking journey to see the world through new eyes.

Oct 4-5 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Destruction in Ukraine war shown through lengthy tableaux. Soldiers' phone calls to families reveal parallel world. Sound and image confront one another.

Oct 4-5 (7:15pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Could this be just the recipe to spice up his boring life?

Oct 4-6 (4:20pm, 7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Nurse Unseen explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses who risked  their lives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic while facing a resurgence of anti-Asian hate in the streets.

Oct 5 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

Oct 5 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Director Richard Fung draws on a 20-year-old video archive of interviews with Ladoo's family, friends, and literary contemporaries in an attempt to piece together the puzzle of the Trinidadian author's complex life.

Oct 9 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret.

Oct 10 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Uncropped rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America. For over four decades working as a staff photographer at publications such as Harper's Bazaar, The New York Observer and, most notably, The Village Voice, Hamilton captured some of the most remarkable people and stories of the last half century.

Oct 11-12 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Mediha, a teenage Yazidi girl who has recently returned from ISIS captivity, turns the camera on herself to process her trauma while rescuers search for her missing family members.

Oct 11 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results.

Oct 12 (5:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Oct 15 (7pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people's lives... including his own.

Oct 18 (7pm), Oct 19 (3:15pm, 6pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Filmed in the lush, remote forests of the Eastern Himalayas at the India-Bhutan border, this documentary immerses the viewer in the hidden nocturnal life of a little-seen corner of the globe, observing a scientist and her Indigenous assistant in their nightly study of native hawk moths and their patterns.

Oct 19 (3:20pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Nadia, after living in France for many years, travels to Fez, Morocco, where her siblings, the modernized brother Riss and the traditional sister Leila, reunite to visit their dying father.

Oct 20 (1:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Produced at a moment in the 1980s when the problems of toxic waste disposal and its near-eternal afterlife were very much in the news, this infamous, acronym-titled sci-fi chiller illustrates the unfortunate side effects of a program of dumping green radioactive sludge in New York City's subway tunnels.

Oct 20 (3:40pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

The second entry in the director's Youth trilogy about young Chinese textile industry workers after the 2023 documentary Youth (Spring).

Oct 20 (5:10pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

All-archival documentary The Reagan Show observes Hollywood ham-cum-Leader of the Free World Ronnie as he plays the role of a lifetime.

Oct 20 (8:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

It's the third installment in the director's Youth trilogy, about young Chinese textile industry workers, following 2023's Youth (Spring) and 2024's Youth (Hard Times).

Oct 25 (6:30pm), Oct 26 (7pm)

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

It's a twisty tale of a couple finds their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star.

Oct 26 (6:30pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

After falling in love with a U.S. Army sergeant, an East Berlin boy named Hansel undergoes a sex-change operation so that he can legally marry his beloved. But the operation is botched, leaving the boy less than a man, but not quite a woman. Deserted in a Kansas trailer park, the boy/girl, now named Hedwig, reinvents himself/herself as a rock star.

Oct 28 (7pm)

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

Anxiety-ridden Walt embarks on a desperate quest through Portland, Maine to retrieve his stolen dog before his girlfriend returns from a business trip, or risk losing them both.

Nov 9 (5:30pm)

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

Debonair con man Lawrence, who makes his living targeting wealthy women and cheating them out of a fortune, meets his match when he comes across uncouth American hustler Freddy, whose brand of crookery leaves much to be desired in the sophistication department.

Nov 11 (6:30pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.