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 March 21st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Mar 21 (6:15pm)

Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.

Mar 21 (7:15pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.

Mar 21 (7pm), Mar 22 (12:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on her life and career.

Mar 21 (7pm), Mar 22 (2pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life.

Mar 22 (4:40pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

After an Iraqi missile strike, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos. Fourteen-year-old Omid, who works as a food delivery boy, is searching for his missing brother - and for an escape route out of the besieged city.

Mar 22 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.

Mar 22 (7:30pm)

Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)

In the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple's seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.

Mar 22 (8pm)

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

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

Mar 23 (2pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Documentary with dramatised episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, children of German writer Thomas Mann.

Mar 23 (2:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Via a mixture of characters and cityscapes, Farsi's covert filming reveals a city beset with social and political tensions, yet held aloft by the indomitable spirit and character of its population.

Mar 23 (4:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Tehran, June 2009. Amid protests against rigged elections, two generations find shelter. Using technology, they connect with the outside world as an unlikely love story unfolds.

Mar 25 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A rebellious young woman marries a prominent Republican politician twenty-six years older than her. Decades later, anticipating his death, she wrestles with their marriage, her sexuality, and a life spent by his side.

Mar 25 (7:15pm with Naomi Watts), Mar 28 (6:15pm), Mar 29 (6:15pm), Mar 30 (5:15pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Follows a story of love, friendship, grief and healing, about a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend and mentor.

Mar 26 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

PFS: In NYC, the debate over how to fix Penn Station erupts between power brokers and residents. But what's at stake is not just a transit hub; it's the future of the city.

Road: In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, "Magnasanti" exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design.

Night @ Garden: Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II.

Mar 26 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.

Mar 27 (8pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

After an unexpected death, three best friends--gay gentlemen of a certain age--decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs, where the wealthiest one lives with his mother.

Mar 27 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A carnival barker foolishly releases his 400 pound gorilla, who then literally goes bananas on a rampage of raw rape and boffo butchery - leaving the low rent population of Long Island either sexually violated, slaughtered - or both!

Mar 27 (6:45pm), Mar 28 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The life and songbook of Janis Ian mirrored the awakening of American women in the 1960s and '70s, as they found their voices and embraced their power.

Mar 28 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

Gone Girls: A look back at the women who disappeared from New York City and Long Island before the 2010 discovery of female remains found in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island, which lead authorities to believe the deaths were all connected.

Lost Girls: After Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.

Mar 28 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

It showcases the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence.

Mar 28 (7pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Mar 28 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Documentary about performance artist and "song and dance man" Andy Kaufman

Mar 28 (7:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Julie is a star player at an elite tennis academy. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club's players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet.

Mar 28 (6:30pm), Mar 29 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners and lovers, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.

Mar 29 (2pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.

Mar 29 (5:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa.

Mar 31 (7pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Black, plus-size and newly single, Mavis unexpectedly finds herself having to rebuild her life after putting all her eggs in one man's basket, but she's determined to not only survive but thrive with the support of her chosen family.

Apr 2 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.

Apr 2 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.

Apr 3 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Vienna, 1913, Europe is on the brink of WWI. Two young men become friends: Hugo, a musician from a privileged family, tries psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud; Adolf, a struggling vegetarian artist, falls in love with German nationalism.

Apr 3 (7pm), Apr 4 (7pm), Apr 5 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston 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.

Apr 3 (7:45pm), Apr 4 (7:20pm), Apr 5 (7:20pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

It tells the story of Janice, the mother of a teenager who shot and killed three of his classmates.

Apr 4 (6:35pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.

Apr 4 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

Apr 4 (7pm), Apr 5 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.

Apr 4 (7:15pm), Apr 5 (7:15pm), Apr 6 (3:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

After fourty years of solitude, a spirited elderly hermit opens his life to young female director as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness he calls home.

Apr 5 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

Apr 6 (1:30pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Aurora, the daughter of a religious leader, enters into a secret affair that changes her life. She tries to please everyone but when it's time for a lavish wedding anniversary celebration, an uninvited guest arrives.

Apr 6 (4:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

Apr 6 (7:30pm)

92Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A hedge fund manager resorts to burglary after losing his job, targeting wealthy neighbors to maintain his family's lifestyle, but makes a fateful error breaking into the wrong home.

Apr 9 (6:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Avenue, Manhattan)

A 39th generation ex-Orthodox rabbi embarks on a remarkable 21-year personal journey, also embracing life as a drag queen.

Apr 11 (7pm), Apr 12 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.

Apr 17 (6:30pm), Apr 18 (6:15pm)

Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

Apr 21 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of marriage proposals coupled with her unseemly removal of her hood causes her family to seek the help of an exorcist, convinced she must be possessed by evil spirits.

May 17 (7pm), May 18 (2:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

British Invasion icons The Zombies reflect on paving 60 years and counting of their musical path from teenage friends to legends in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.