Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from February 7th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Voices of the Gods - Q&A with Director Al Santana
Feb 7 (6pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
VOICES OF THE GODS foregrounds the Akan and Yoruba religions, two West African traditions practiced within the United States. It looks at their cosmologies, use of music, dance, and medicine in various ceremonies and rituals.
Gazer - Q&A with Director Ryan Sloan, Writer/Actor Ariella Mastroianni
Feb 7 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Frankie, a young mother with dyschronometria, struggles to perceive time. Using cassette tapes for guidance, she takes a risky job from a mysterious woman to support her family, unaware of the dark consequences that await.
I Love You Forever - Q&A with Directors Cazzie David & Elisa Kalani, Actors Sofia Black-D'Elia & Jon Rudnitsky
Feb 7 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A subversive romantic comedy gone wrong that follows a young woman into and out of an emotionally abusive relationship.
Parthenope - Q&A with Actress Celeste Dalla Porta
Feb 7 (7pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.
Scarecrow - Q&A with Director Jerry Schatzberg
Feb 8 (4pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
An ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together.
Three Birthdays - Q&A with Director Jane Weinstock, Actress Annie Parisse
Feb 8 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
In 1970, at the height of the sexual revolution, an idealistic academic couple and their 17-year-old daughter wrestle with revolutionary ideas around sex, race, and class.
No Chains No Masters - Q&A with Director Simon Moutaïrou
Feb 8 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Massamba and his daughter Mati, slaves on Eugène Larcenet's plantation, hatch a daring plan to escape slavery, braving numerous obstacles in their pursuit of freedom.
Dead Pixel (4 shorts) - Q&A with Directors Alima Lee, Cherry Nin, Clare Kinkaid
Feb 8 (7:30pm)
Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)
Exposing apocalypse as current reality, DEAD PIXEL emerges as a spell for coping with inhospitable conditions. These experimental works use film and video as tools for charting underground networks where technology, surveillance, labor and desire intersect, engaging in dynamic conversations around queer ecologies, alchemy, transmutation, and haunting.
Inside Out 2 - Q&A with Maya Hawke
Feb 10 (7:30pm)
92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.
The Dead Thing - Q&A with Director Elric Kane
Feb 11 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.
Emilia Perez - Q&A with Director Jacques Audiard
Feb 12 (6:10pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Emilia Pérez follows four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. Cartel leader Emilia enlists unappreciated lawyer Rita to help fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self.
Flow - Q&A with Director Gints Zilbalodis
Feb 12 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.
Universal Language - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Matthew Rankin
Feb 12 (7pm), Feb 13 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An absurdist triptych of seemingly unconnected stories find a mysterious point of intersection in this tale set somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran.
Trouble Every Day - Q&A with Actress Tricia Vessey
Feb 15 (4:45pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.
We Want the Funk! - Q&A with Directors Stanley Nelson & Nicole London
Feb 20 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53 Street, Manhattan)
A syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness.
UnBroken - Q&A with Director Beth Lane
Feb 21 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother and her six siblings who, as mere children, escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their own youthful bravado and the kindness of German strangers.
Compensation - Q&A with Director Zeinabu irene Davis, Writer Marc Arthur Chery
Feb 21 (6:30pm), Feb 22 (4:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse - Q&A with Directors Molly Bernstein & Philip Dolin
Feb 21 (7:10pm), Feb 22 (4:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS.
Ex-Husbands - Q&A with Director Noah Pritzker, Actor Griffin Dunne
Feb 21 (7:15pm), Feb 22 (7:15pm)
Village East by Angelika (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
Manhattan dentist Peter Pearce is facing a midlife crisis after his wife of 35 years leaves him. On the spur of the moment, he books a trip to Tulum, Mexico, only to crash his son's bachelor party.
Pizza Guy 8 - Q&A with Director Tate Hoffmaster
Feb 22 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After being pushed around, a kind, down-on-his-luck pizza delivery boy is finally pushed too far and goes on a killing spree. However, he soon discovers he is actually in a movie and tries to escape his murderous fate in this surrealist slasher.
The Daytrippers - Q&A with Actors Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Campbell Scott
Feb 23 (2pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice.
Spirits of Rebellion - Q&A with Director Zeinabu irene Davis
Feb 23 (2:50pm)
Metrograph (8 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Chronicles the critically acclaimed yet relatively unknown black filmmakers and media artists collectively known as the Los Angeles Rebellion.
She-Devil - Q&A with Director Susan Seidelman
Feb 24 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A surprisingly resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Adult Best Friends - Q&A with Director Delaney Buffett
Feb 24 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Inseparable since childhood, levelheaded Katie takes her codependent best friend Delaney on a girls' trip to break the news that she is getting married. Things do not go as planned.
Rats! - Q&A with Directors Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky
Feb 27 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
In Fresno, Texas, graffiti artist Raphael's arrest leads to his involvement in a chain of events involving a sting operation, suicide, drug deals, criminal suspicions, weapons, a newswoman, and a plutonium deal gone wrong, creating chaos.
Rats! - Q&A with Directors Carl Fry and Maxwell Nalevansky
Feb 28 (10:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
In Fresno, Texas, graffiti artist Raphael's arrest leads to his involvement in a chain of events involving a sting operation, suicide, drug deals, criminal suspicions, weapons, a newswoman, and a plutonium deal gone wrong, creating chaos.
Addams Family Values - Q&A with Writer Paul Rudnick
Mar 2 (11am)
Film Forum (208 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
Boom For Real - Q&A with Director Sara Driver, Artist Lee Quinones
Mar 5 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
Wendy and Lucy - Q&A with Writer/Director Kelly Reichardt, Producer Larry Fessenden
Mar 7 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.
Slide - Q&A with Director/Animator Bill Plympton
Mar 9 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A slide guitar-playing cowboy appears in a corrupt 1940's logging town to battle a pair of evil twins and save the village of Sourdough Creek.
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold - Q&A with Director Griffin Dunne
Mar 11 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne.