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 22nd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Bound - Q&A with Director Issac Hirotsu Woofter and others
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.
Bad Shabbos - Q&A with Director Daniel Robbins, and others
May 22 (7:15pm), May 24 (4:45pm, 7pm), May 25 (4:45pm, 7pm), May 28 (7:40pm)
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.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Q&A with Director Nicholas Meyer
May 28 (6pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
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.
Ron Delsener Presents - Q&A with Director Jake Sumner, film subject Ron Delsener
May 30 (7:15pm), May 31 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Follows Ron Delsener one of the most influential concert promoter in New York. Now that he is 86-year-old but still has a spring in his step.
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.
Dangerous Animals - Q&A with Director Sean Byrne, Actor Jai Courtney
Jun 2 (8pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
When Zephyr, a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
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.
Slumlord Millionaire - Q&A with Directors/Producers Steph Ching & Ellen Martinez, Producer Nicole Tsien
Jun 6 - 12 (numerous showtimes - check link below)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
In New York City's most quickly gentrifying neighborhoods, a group of fearless residents, activists, and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords and developers for the basic human right to a home.
Country Hotel - Q&A with film scholar Palita Chunsaengchan
Jun 7 (2:15pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
If Jim Jarmusch attempted an adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit, it might turn out something like R.D. Pestonji's surreal, freewheeling comedy Country Hotel (1957). In Country Hotel, the curious and easily vexed bartender and self-proclaimed "arm wrestling world champion" at a ramshackle outpost called "Paradise Hotel" encounters a revolving cast of eccentric visitors who test his patience in confounding ways over the course of a single night.
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.
Rubble Kings - Q&A with Director Shan Nicholson
Jun 10 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Through archival footage Nicholson tells the story of the real Warriors that walked the streets of New York City in the 1970s and the harsh reality of gang life in a city that seemed to be falling apart.
Mutual Appreciation - Q&A with Director Andrew Bujalski
Jun 14 (6:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend.
Funny Ha Ha - Intro with Director Andrew Bujalski
Jun 14 (9pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Marnie just graduated from college, drinks likes she's still in school, and is looking for a temporary job but a permanent boyfriend. She loves a guy who doesn't love her (?), ping-pongs between awkward romantic alternatives and even less suitable jobs.
Results - Q&A with Director Andrew Bujalski, Actor Kevin Corrigan
Jun 15 (1:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client.
Ron Delsener Presents - Q&A with Director Jake Sumner
Jun 15 (3:15pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Follows Ron Delsener one of the most influential concert promoter in New York. Now that he is 86-year-old but still has a spring in his step.
Saurians - Q&A with Director Mark Polonia
Jun 19 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
2 dinosaurs are awakened by a construction blast.
Familiar Touch - Q&A with Director Sarah Friedland, Actress Kathleen Chalfant
Jun 20 (6:50pm), Jun 21 (4:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Gangs of Wasseypur - Q&A with Director Anurag Kashyap
Jun 22 (12:15pm: 321 minutes with an intermission)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.
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.