Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from November 7th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Starring Jerry As Himself - Q&A with Director Law Chen, Producer Jonathan Hsu, subject Jerry Hsu
Nov 7 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the Chinese police. Jerry's family recreates the events on film and his three sons discover a darker truth. True crime meets spy thriller in this genre-bending docufiction hybrid about an immigrant’s search for the American dream.
Universal Language - Q&A with Writer/Producer/Actor Ila Firouzabadi
Nov 7 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
An absurdist tryptic of seemingly unconnected stories find a mysterious point of intersection in Matthew Rankin's autobiographical fever dream set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran.
Heaven, Earth + Hell and E Minha Cara - Q&A with Director Thomas Allen Harris
Nov 7 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
Heaven, Earth + Hell: documentary that charts a course through African, Christian and Native American cosmologies to tell a tale of love, loss and a search for freedom in two parallel inter-racial relationships.
E Minha Cara: traces the filmmaker's journey to Salvador Da Bahia, the African heart and soul of Brazil, as he seeks the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams.
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.
Sing Sing - Q&A with cast Clarence 'Divine Eye' Maclin, Jon-Adrian
'JJ' Velazquez, and Sean 'Dino' Johnson
Nov 8 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Bird - Q&A with Actor Barry Keoghan
Nov 8 (7pm), Nov 9 (7:15pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
Hippo - Q&A with Writer/Director Mark H. Rapaport, Co-Writer/Star Kimball Farley, Cinematographer William Babcock
Nov 8 (8:45pm), Nov 9 (8:45pm), Nov 10 (12pm), Nov 12 (8pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Hippo examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video-game addicted teenager and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus.
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.
Soundtrack To A Coup D'etat - Q&A with Director Johan Grimonprez
Nov 9 (7pm)
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.
Fonissa (Murderess) - Q&A with Director Eva Nathena
Nov 10 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Driven to despair over women's oppressive living conditions in her island community circa 1900, a midwife finds a violent solution to confront the evils of a male-dominated society.
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World - Q&A with Director Michael Fiore
Nov 10 (2:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
As the second generation owner of New York's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressure of stepping into his father's shoes as the war in Ukraine impacts his family and staff.
Hippo - Q&A
Nov 10 (7:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Hippo examines the coming-of-age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a video-game addicted teenager and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus.
Maria - Q&A with Director Pablo Larraín, Cinematographer Ed Lachman
Nov 10 (5pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
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.
No Fear, No Die - Q&A with Actor Isaach De Bankolé
Nov 11 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
The Last Showgirl - Q&A with Director Gia Coppola, Actress Pamela Anderson
Nov 12 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A seasoned showgirl must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.
His Three Daughters - Q&A with Director Azazel Jacobs
Nov 13 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
This tense, touching and funny portrait of family dynamics follows three estranged sisters as they converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
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.
Sansón and Me - Q&A with Director Rodrigo Reyes
Nov 14 (6pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
Follows a young immigrant's path from coastal Mexico to a life sentence for murder in California.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 14 (6pm)
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.
The Image You Missed - Q&A with Director Dónal Foreman
Nov 14 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never-seen-before imagery, The Image You Missed is a documentary essay film that weaves together a history of the Northern Irish Troubles with the story of a son's search for his father.
The World According to Allee Willis - Q&A with Director Alexis Spraic
Nov 14 (7pm), Nov 15 (7pm)
Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Songwriter / artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling to fit established gender and sexual norms - until she found a path to love.
All We Imagine As Light - Q&A with Director Payal Kapadia
Nov 14 (7:30pm), 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.
Nathan-ism - Q&A with Director Elan Golod, Producer Melanie Levy
Nov 14 (6pm), Nov 15 (6:30pm), Nov 16 (3:30pm, 6:30pm), Nov 17 (6pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York, received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic inspiration for Nathan, a virtually unknown "outsider artist", who spent the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative from his memories.
L For Leisure - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 15 (9:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Arthouse comedy set in 1992-3 following awkward graduate students on vacations all around the world.
Dream Team - Intro and Q&A with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 15 (7pm), Nov 16 (3pm), Nov 17 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In this absurdist homage to 90's basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery. A post-modern, soft-core fever dream.
Two Plains and a Fancy - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 16 (12:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A group of women traverse the landscapes and strange towns of Colorado in the 1890's.
Danton's Death & Towards Tenderness - Q&A with Director Alice Diop
Nov 16 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Danton's Death: A black man from the Paris suburbs seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France's most prestigious drama schools.
Towards Tenderness: Four young men from the Paris suburbs talk about their masculinity. Their interior monologues, however, reveal other desires.
On Call - Q&A with Director Alice Diop
Nov 17 (1:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The daily routine of a doctor who treats refugees at a hospital in Paris.
Blondes in the Jungle - Intro with Directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn
Nov 17 (9:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
On a hunt for the Fountain of Youth, three teenagers in 80's Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encounters. Long silent jungle sequences, a meditation on Mayan Archaeology and a heavy TV teen vibe make Blondes in the Jungle at once an absurd comedy and a serious film about the possibility of spiritual growth in a world of instant gratification.
Janet Planet - Q&A with Director Annie Baker
Nov 19 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
The Devil's Bath - Q&A with Co-Directors Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz
Nov 19 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Austria in the 18th century. Forests surround villages. Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death. Agnes readies for married life with her beloved. But her mind and heart grow heavy. A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising.
Swift Justice - Q&A with Director Victor J. Blue
Nov 20 (6:30pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
Granted rare access to a Sharia court in Helmand Province, Swift Justice follows the story of a Afghan widow fighting for her rights in the Taliban's heartland.
A Traveler's Needs - Q&A with Actress Isabelle Huppert
Nov 20 (6:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A French woman drinks makgeolli in Korea after losing her means of income, then teaches French to two Korean women.
Lyd - Q&A with Directors Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland
Nov 20 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
A story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Q&A with Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Nov 20 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Q&A with Director Mohammad Raoulof
Nov 22 (6pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
Based on a True Story (2 episodes) - Q&A with EP/Actress Kaley Cuoco
Nov 22 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Season two finds new parents Ava and Nathan Bartlett three months into parenthood. Focused on taking care of her family, Ava is determined to resist her true crime obsession and return to work as a real estate agent while Nathan trains private tennis clients.
A Real Pain - Q&A with Director Jesse Eisenberg
Nov 22 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
After Tiller - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 22 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
This thought provoking, sometimes troubling documentary examines the personal and ethical imperatives that drive abortion providers to continue in the face of often dangerous legal and personal harassment.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Q&A with Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Nov 22 (7pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
Jacob's Ladder - Q&A with Director Adrian Lyne
Nov 22 (7:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
Miss Americana - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 23 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A look at iconic pop artist Taylor Swift during a transformational time in her life as she embraces her role as a singer/songwriter and harnesses the full power of her voice.
Stolen - Q&A with Writer/Producer Gaurav Dhingra, moderated by filmmaker Mira Nair
Nov 23 (8:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Two urbane brothers witness a baby being kidnapped from an impoverished mother at a railway station in rural India. One guided by moral duty, convinces the other to help the mother and join a perilous investigation to find the baby.
The Departure - Q&A with Director Lana Wilson
Nov 24 (3:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A Buddhist monk asks what we owe one another and provides experiences to help us find answers.
Between the Temples - Q&A with Director Nathan Silver
Nov 26 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Ovid, New York - Q&A with Director Vito Rowlands
Dec 2 (7:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Seven tales of transformation poetically reimagine Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and paint a picture of violence and catharsis, anchored in mythical landscapes.
Emilia Pérez
Intro by Zoe Saldana, Q&A with Karla Sofia Gascon
Nov 2 (6:45pm)
Q&A with Director Jacques Audiard
Dec 3 (6pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita, an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.
Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion - Q&A with Director Matthew Miele, Bob Mackie, Bernadette Peters
Dec 4 (7pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Bob Mackie, a six-decade costume designer, received a Lifetime Achievement award and Tony nomination for The Cher Show. His unique, unfiltered style has been showcased in a new documentary.
The Sex Lives of College Girls (advance screening of episode 3)
Q&A with Actors Pauline Chalamet, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Mia Rodgers, Gracie Lawrence
Dec 4 (8pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Four 18-year-old freshman roommates at Essex College in Vermont. A bundle of contradictions and hormones, these sexually active college girls are equal parts lovable and infuriating.
Hard Truths - Q&A with Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Dec 6 (6:15pm), Dec 7 (12:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.
Obsessed with Light - Q&A with Directors Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl
Dec 6 (7:30pm), Dec 7 (7:30pm), Dec 8 (3pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A film that tells the story of American performer Loie Fuller, a pioneer of dance, stage lighting and design.
The Day of the Jackal (episode 109) - Q&A with Eddie Redmayne
Dec 10 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
The Jackal is an elusive assassin who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. He soon meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who tracks him down in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe.