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 May 16th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Love - Q&A with Director Dag Johan Haugerud
May 16 (7:45pm), May 17 (5:15pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
LOVE focuses on two colleagues at an Oslo hospital — Marianne, a straight (and straitlaced) doctor, and Tor, a gay male nurse. Both single, they cross paths by chance after hours and confide in each other: Marianne confesses her desire to be more adventurous and open in her encounters with men; Tor shares his fatigue with Grindr hook-ups. Their conversations form the heart of exploration of desire and emotional fulfillment.
Desert of Namibia - Q&A with Director Yoko Yamanaka
May 16 (6:45pm), May 20 (6:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
21-year-old Satsuki swaps boyfriends frequently, unconcerned with career or societal norms. Her unpredictable behavior leads to a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, as she navigates a rigid, patriarchal society.
Bound - Q&A with Director Issac Hirotsu Woofter and others
May 16 (6:15pm, 8:30pm both times with Actors Ethan Hereschenfeld & Janice Amaya, Editor Kristian Otero), May 22 (6pm, 8:15pm both times with Actors Aixa Kendrick, Pooya Mohseni, & Alexandra Faye Sadeghian)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
In order to escape her drug dealing abusive stepfather, a young introvert flees to NYC. After successfully reinventing herself, she realizes she must confront her dark past, to truly be free.
Sister Midnight - Q&A with Director Karan Kandhari
May 16 (7pm), May 17 (7pm), May 18 (4pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A genre-bending comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers certain feral impulses that land her in unlikely situations.
Emergent City - Q&A with Director/Editor Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
May 17 (4pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Industry City, a Brooklyn industrial area, sparks conflict when purchased by global developers. Residents, city officials, and planners clash over differing visions for the city's urban development future.
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks - Q&A with Director John Maggio
May 17 (4pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
The film explores the power of images in advancing racial, economic, and social equality as seen through the lens of Gordon Parks, one of America's most trailblazing artists, and the generation of young photographers, filmmakers, and activists he inspired.
Amiko - Q&A with Director Yoko Yamanaka
May 17 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Amiko, a high school girl, adores Aomi to the point of nearly worshipping him. But one day, he runs away from home. Amiko's sometimes cynical, sometimes self-deprecating inner monologue goes off like vibrant stand-up comedy.
Hung Up On A Dream - Q&A with Director Robert Schwartzman
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.
Avanti! - Q&A with Actress Juliet Mills
May 18 (3:50pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body--and discovers that Dad died with his long-time mistress.
It's Greek to Me: Short Film Program - Q&A with directors
May 18 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The Hellenic Film Society presents eight of the best short films for its first It's Greek to Me: Short Film Program all created by Greek-American filmmakers.
Oklahoma Breakdown - Q&A with Director Christopher Fitzpatrick
May 21 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Mike Hosty is a one-man band freak of nature who also tells jokes
Bad Shabbos - Q&A with Director Daniel Robbins, Actor Jon Bass
May 22 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, subject Ellen Jovin
May 22-27 (numerous showtimes, check website schedule)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a rollicking road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time.
Northern Lights - Q&A with Writer/Directors John Hanson & Rob Nilsson
May 23 (6:30pm), May 24 (6:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in an political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks and the railroads, NORTHERN LIGHTS brings back a forgotten era of American history and evokes the austere beauty of the Northern Plains.
Building Bombs - Q&A with Co-Directors Mark Mori & Susan Robinson
May 24 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
It is one of the most volatile nuclear arms controversies in America's history: the mismanagement of the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Plant outside Aiken, South Carolina--mismanagement which has produced numerous reactor accidents, a general deterioration of the aging facility's cooling system, and the threat of nuclear waste to the area's drinking water.
It's All Gonna Break - Q&A with Director Stephen Chung
May 28 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A front-row seat to Broken Social Scene’s rise and how they came to define a generation of indie rock
It's All Gonna Break - Q&A with Director Stephen Chung
May 29 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A front-row seat to Broken Social Scene’s rise and how they came to define a generation of indie rock
It's All Gonna Break - Q&A with Director Stephen Chung
May 30 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A front-row seat to Broken Social Scene’s rise and how they came to define a generation of indie rock
Shall We Dance? - Q&A with Director Masayuki Suo
May 30 (7pm), May 31 (4:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
Troma's Curse of the Weredeer - Q&A with Director Ben Johnson
May 31 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
There's sumthin' in them woods, 'n it's killin' hunters. On his bachelor party deer killin', beer drinkin', huntin' trip weekend; Randy's world is turned inside out. All's he wanted to do was to spend a lil' time with the fellers.
Redlands - Q&A with Director John Brian King
Jun 4 (8:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
The lives of three residents of Redlands, California -- a middle-aged glamour photographer named Allan, his nude model Vienna, and her indie-musician boyfriend Zack -- intersect and ultimately collide in this claustrophobic adult drama.
Underground Orange - Q&A with Writer/Director Michael Taylor Jackson
Jun 8 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A Californian backpacker becomes entangled in a polyamorous relationship with a gang of young actors who plot to kidnap the US Ambassador to Argentina.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Jun 22 (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.
Dog Movie - Q&A with Director Henry Hanson, Actors Jessi Gaston, Marten Katze & Milo Talwani
Jun 24 (9:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A couple adopts a dog with the same name as the unemployed couch surfer.
How to Have an American Baby - Q&A with Director Leslie Tai
Jun 25 (6pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A kaleidoscopic voyage into the once-booming shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists who travel to the U.S. on "birthing vacations" in order to obtain American citizenship for their babies.
Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue - Q&A with Director Jill Campbell, Models Carol Alt & Roshumba Williams
Jun 25 (7pm), Jun 26 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Jule Campbell's 32-year reign as editor of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue, transforming it into a media empire. Exploring changing beauty standards, feminism's evolution, and interviews with Campbell and supermodels she championed.