Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from October 17th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Union
Q&A with Directors Steve Maing, Brett Story
Oct 18 (6:15pm)
Q&A with Director Brett Story, Producer Mars Verrone
Oct 19 (1:25pm), Oct 20 (6:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City's Staten Island challenges one of the world's largest companies in a unionization battle.
Hunter, Hunter - Q&A with Actor Devon Sawa
Oct 17 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault, his wife Anne, and their daughter Renée struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf.
Before - Q&A with Actors Billy Crystal, Judith Light, Jacobi Jupe, Rosie Perez, and Creator Sarah Thorp
Oct 17 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
After tragically losing his wife to suicide, child psychiatrist Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past.
Rumours - Q&A with Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Oct 17 (7pm), Oct 18 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Critical Acclaim - Q&A with Director John Martoccia
Oct 18 (5pm, 7pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
In a relentless battle against alcoholism, a struggling Italian-American filmmaker embarks on a perilous journey that forces him to confront his inner demons and fight against the imminent self-destruction threatening to consume him.
The Universe in a Grain of Sand - Q&A with Director Mark Levinson
Oct 18 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Deftly intertwining a history of computation with a broad survey of experimental cinema, physicist and filmmaker Mark Levinson explores how experimentation in film and science together reshape our ability to represent and understand the world at its most fundamental level.
High Tide
Q&A with Actors Marisa Tomei and Marco Pigossi, Director Marco Calvani
Oct 18 (8:40pm SOLD OUT)
Q&A with Director Marco Calvani, Actor Marco Pigossi
Oct 19 (8:40pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Heartbroken and adrift, undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço searches for purpose in the queer mecca of Provincetown. As the summer season comes to a fade, he sparks an intense and unexpected romance with Maurice. Together, the two reconcile the pasts they've left behind and their uncertain futures.
Nocturnes - Q&A with Directors Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan
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.
No One Asked You
Q&A with Director Ruth Leitman
Oct 18 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Ruth Leitman, Comedian/film subject Lizz Winstead
Oct 19 (3pm), Oct 20 (4pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Comedian Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show), and Abortion Access Front crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture icons and next-gen comics fuel this six-year road film activating small-town folks to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, anti-abortion extremists, and media neglect as the race to the bottom ensues.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life - Q&A with Director Ric Burns
Oct 19 (12:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The life and career of the renowned neurologist and author, Dr. Oliver Sacks.
A Door to The Sky - Q&A with Director Farida Benlyazid
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.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Oct 19 (5pm)
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.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'etat - Q&A with Director Johan Grimonprez
Oct 19 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
Rumours - Q&A with Directors Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, Evan Johnson
Oct 19 (7pm, 9:10pm), Oct 20 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
SECRET SCREENING - Q&A with Cinematographer
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.
Youth (Hard Times) - Q&A with Director Wang Bing
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).
The Reagan Show - Q&A with Director Pacho Velez
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.
Counting the Vote - Q&A with Margaret Hoover and others
Oct 20 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Join host of PBS' Firing Line, Margaret Hoover, for a conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and GOP election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg about the sanctity and security of our elections - and a screening of the new one-hour Firing Line documentary, Counting the Vote.
Youth (Homecoming) - Intro by Director Wang Bing
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).
The Wrong Ferrari & Adam Green's Aladdin - Q&A with Director Adam Green
Oct 23 (6:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
The Wrong Ferrari: Follows four of Greenster's love affairs, life as a video game character and the use of a hallucinogen drug.
Adam Green's "Aladdin": A hyper-sensory, poetic, and humorously modern take on the Arabian Nights classic tale
Lives of Performers - Q&A with Director Yvonne Rainer
Oct 23 (7pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer.
Stolen Time - Q&A with Director Helene Klodawsky
Oct 24 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
As her firm receives more and more complaints against Canadian for-profit senior care homes, attorney Melissa Miller builds a case to sue facilities for neglect and expose a system wrought with abuse.
Momma's Man - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs, Actor Matt Boren
Oct 25 (6:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.
A New Kind of Wilderness - Q&A with Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Oct 25 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
In the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.
Your Monster - Q&A with Actress Melissa Barrera
Oct 25 (8:30pm)
Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)
After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming monster living in her closet. A romantic-comedy-horror film about falling in love with your inner rage.
Magpie - Q&A with Actress Daisy Ridley, Writer Tom Bateman
Oct 25 (6pm), Oct 26 (6pm)
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.
Black Box Diaries - Q&A with Director/film subject Shiori Ito
Oct 25 (7pm), Oct 26 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems.
Memoir of a Snail - Q&A with Director Adam Elliot
Oct 25 (7:30pm), Oct 26 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs.
Memoir of a Snail - Q&A with Director Adam Elliot
Oct 25 (9pm), Oct 27 (2:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs.
In America - Q&A with Cinematographer Declan Quinn
Oct 26 (11am)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
Dark Money - Q&A with Director Kimberly Reed
Oct 26 (1:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana - a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide—to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor John Cameron Mitchell
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.
French Exit - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs, Actor Lucas Hedges
Oct 26 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.
Dahomey - Q&A with Director Mati Diop
Oct 26 (6:30pm), Oct 27 (4:40pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin.
Hangdog - Q&A with Writer/Director Matt Cascella, Actors Desmin Borges, Barbara Rosenblat, Cathy Curtin
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.
A Dangerous Assignment - Q&A with Director Juan Ravell, Producer Jeff Arak
Oct 28 (8pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
With the Venezuelan news outlet Armando.info, FRONTLINE investigates the figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S. This 90-minute documentary tells the inside story of Alex Saab, his capture and then release by the U.S. in a controversial prisoner swap, and what has happen
Let's Start With a Cult - Q&A with Director/Writer Ben Kitnick, Actor/Writer/Producer Stavros Halkias, Actor/Writer Wes Haney
Oct 29 (6:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Having missed out on his cult's long-awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'etat - Q&A with Director Johan Grimonprez
Nov 1 (6:45pm), Nov 2 (4pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
Breakfast of Champions - Q&A with Director Alan Rudolph
Nov 1 (7:15pm), Nov 2 (7:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.
The Graduates - Q&A with Director Hannah Peterson
Nov 1 (7:30pm), Nov 2 (7:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, a young woman prepares to graduate high school as she navigates an uncertain future alongside a community that is searching for ways to heal.
Stinking Heaven - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver
Nov 7 (7pm)
BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Set in Passaic in the early 90s, the film follows a woman who arrives at a harmonious safe house for recovering drug addicts run by a married couple, only to inflame tensions among the patients.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Steve Martin & Frank Oz in-person
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.
National Lampoon's Animal House - Q&A with Actor Tim Matheson
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.
Instrument - Q&A with Director Jem Cohen, Musician Guy Picciotto
Nov 13 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
The band Fugazi is documented by filmmaker Jem Cohen over a period of ten years through performance footage and interviews with the band and their fans.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 15 (7:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 15 (7:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.