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 28th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

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 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 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 29 (12:15pm), Mar 30 (2:30pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, 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 29 (7pm), Mar 30 (12:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Thomas Kinkade's landscapes made him the most collected and despised painter ever. After his shocking death, his family discovers a vault of unseen paintings that reveal a complex artist whose life and work embody our divided America.

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 1 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

May 1984. An unemployed ice cream truck driver steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a secret: the key to endless money. But his winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives uncover his real motivations.

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)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

The latest documentary from disabled filmmaker Alexander Freeman captures his own unexpected journey into parenthood prompting difficult questions, and confronting common assumptions about autonomy, self-determination, and independence along the way.

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 (4pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

The latest documentary from disabled filmmaker Alexander Freeman captures his own unexpected journey into parenthood prompting difficult questions, and confronting common assumptions about autonomy, self-determination, and independence along the way.

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 5 (5pm), Apr 6 (2:30pm)

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

Pays homage to the Café's 41 years of existence in the heart of Greenwich Village. Mr. Jacobsohn became a permanent fixture at the Café over the years, capturing many of the most memorable moments, and some not so memorable ones. The film features interviews and recollections by Eve Ensler, singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega, David Amram, and Arturo O'Farrill.

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 8 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Apr 8 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Follows Elvira as she battles against her gorgeous stepsister in a realm where beauty reigns supreme. She resorts to extreme measures to captivate the prince, amidst a ruthless competition for physical perfection.

Apr 8 (12pm), Apr 10 (7pm with Perri Peltz)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Exposes the real-world consequences of dangerous social media algorithms that exploit and endanger vulnerable young users.

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 10 (7:30pm)

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

Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

Apr 10 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

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 12 (4:45pm)

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.

Apr 15 (7pm), Apr 16 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Investigative feature documentary about what really fuels global commerce: corruption. For years a company with jet-set style and dirty hands operated in the shadows of the global oil industry with total impunity, paying multi-million dollar bribes to some of the biggest companies in the world.

Apr 17 (6:30pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Brilliant singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco balances her passion for creating music with raising children. An intimate glimpse into her unique artistry and modern family life.

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 18 (7:15pm), Apr 19 (5:20pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father's sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.

Apr 18 (7pm), Apr 19 (7pm), Apr 20 (6pm), Apr 24 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Vicky Du lovingly writes the history of her family's encounters with political violence and intergenerational trauma. Through an assemblage of family keepsakes and intimate interviews with relatives, Du tells a story that strives to encompass the myriad, complicated truths of her family.

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.

Apr 22 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum.

Apr 24 (7pm), Apr 25 (7pm), Apr 26 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.

Apr 25 (6pm), Apr 26 (3:15pm)

Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.

Apr 27 (2pm)

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

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Apr 27 (5pm, 7:10pm)

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

Shattering the myth of Jewish passivity in WW2, these last surviving Partisans tell their stories of resistance against the Nazis and their collaborators in FOUR WINTERS.

May 2 (8:10pm), May 3 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.

May 7 (7pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Three men take an extended weekend hunting trip, where an initial spell of hunting success sharpens their instincts and stirs a sense of rivalry. But one day all animals vanish without a trace. As the forest turns eerily quiet, the men become obsessed with the idea that the hunt must continue.

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.