Michael Fiore - screening of Veselka - New Plaza Cinema - June 23, 2024
Michael Fiore - screening of Veselka - New Plaza Cinema - June 23, 2024
Cinema Roundup For the Week of June 27

(released 6/27/2025)


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 June 27th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.



Familiar Touch - Q&A with Actor H. Jon Benjamin
Jun 27 (6:50pm)
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.

Afternoons of Solitude - Q&A with Director Albert Serra
Jun 27 (6pm), Jun 28 (3:15pm, 6:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Explores the spiritual pain of bullfighting, the tormented torero in a ring, one of the most excessive and graphic examples of the origin of Southern European civilization

A Photographic Memory - Q&A with Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Jun 27 (6pm), Jun 28 (8pm), Jun 29 (2:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
An intimate, genre-bending portrait of a daughter's attempt to piece together a picture of her mother, an avant-garde journalist she never knew.

Citizen Weiner - Q&A with Co-Writer/subject Zack Weiner
Jun 28 (12pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
When the film industry shuts down in 2020, Zack and his friend Joe embark on a unique project: to make a film about running for city council, while actually running for city council.

A Photographic Memory - Q&A with Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Jun 28 (4pm)
Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)
An intimate, genre-bending portrait of a daughter's attempt to piece together a picture of her mother, an avant-garde journalist she never knew.

Bad Shabbos - Q&A with Co-Writer Jack Weiner
Jun 28 (2pm), Jun 29 (7:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th 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
Jun 29 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A grammar documentary for all of us who are devoted to the Oxford Comma

Team Picture - Q&A with Director Kentucker Audley
Jun 29 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A realistic character study of a young man in his early 20's negotiating a disintegrating relationship with an ambitious artist / photographer girlfriend and an ascending fling with an adventurous floater, as well as pressures from his family and society to go to college / make steps toward success, all the while becoming increasingly interested in the questionably viable life of playing guitar and writing songs.

A Photographic Memory - Q&A with Director Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Jun 30 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
An intimate, genre-bending portrait of a daughter's attempt to piece together a picture of her mother, an avant-garde journalist she never knew.

These Birds Walk - Q&A with Directors Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq
Jul 1 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A poor runaway boy and a reluctant ambulance driver in Karachi. Their two lives come together through a dying humanitarian upon whom so much of their daily lives depend.

Invention - Q&A with Director/Co-Writer Courtney Stephens, Actor/Co-Writer Callie Hernandez
Jul 1 (7:30pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father's sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.

Videoheaven - Q&A with Director Alex Ross Perry
Jul 2 (6:30pm), Jul 5 (2:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Tells the story of an industry's glorious, confusing, novel, sometimes seedy, but undeniably seismic impact on American movie culture.

Amadeus - Q&A with Actor F. Murray Abraham
Jul 8 (6pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of his contemporary and rival, Antonio Salieri.

Apocalypse in the Tropics - Q&A with Director Petra Costa
Jul 9 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and poses the threat of a national theocracy in Brazil.

Little, Big, and Far - Q&A with Director Jem Cohen
Jul 11 (6:45pm), Jul 12 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Karl and his physicist wife explore the vastness of the universe and humanity's existential crisis while reckoning with scientific truth.

Commune
Q&A with Composer Elliott Sharp
Jul 11 (7pm)
Q&A with Editor Michael Taylor
Jul 12 (7pm)
Q&A with Director Jonathan Berman
Jul 13 (4pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the American landscape. They aimed to reshape the world with "free love" and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongst citizens across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a naïve past, the film discovers a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy at the influential Black Bear Ranch, in Siskiyou County, California.

Coexistance, My Ass! - Q&A with Director Amber Fares, star Noam Shuster-Eliassi
Jul 14 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi's one-woman show tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for equality, challenging audiences with uncomfortable truths when her pursuit of coexistence starts sounding absurd.

Monk In Pieces - Q&A with Director Billy Shebar, Producer Susan Margolin
Jul 15 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?

Gowanus Current - Q&A with Directors Jamie Courville & Chris Reynolds
Jul 15 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Decades of industrial waste and raw sewage have turned Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal into one of the nation's most toxic bodies of water. The arrival of a billion dollar EPA cleanup and a massive city-led rezoning herald a new era, but what's of value in a neighborhood and who gets to decide?

Nickel Boys - Q&A with Cinematographer Jomo Fray
Jul 15 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A powerful friendship develops between two young African-American men as they navigate the harrowing trials of reform school together.

Folktales - Q&A with Directors Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady
Jul 16 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
In Norse mythology, the three "Norns" are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans' futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. Folktales tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional "gap year" learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world.

Eating Miss Campbell - Q&A with Director Liam Regan
Jul 16 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A vegan-goth high school student falls in love with her new English teacher and develops a problematic taste for human flesh.

Sabbath Queen - Q&A with Director Sandy Dubowski
Jul 17 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A 39th generation ex-Orthodox rabbi embarks on a remarkable 21-year personal journey, also embracing life as a drag queen.

Death & Taxes - Q&A with Director Justin Schein
Jul 17 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Feature documentary about wealth, inequality and the American Dream, viewed through the lens of the estate tax and the very personal story of a father and son at odds over what kind of inheritance we want to leave our kids and our country.

Cloud - Q&A with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jul 18 (6pm), Jul 19 (3:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.

Cloud - Q&A with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jul 18 (7:15pm), Jul 19 (6:50pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.

Drowning Dry - Q&A with Director Laurynas Bareiša
Jul 18 (7:20pm), Jul 19 (7:20pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
To celebrate Lukas' victory at the martial arts tournament and Tomas' birthday party, their wives Juste and Ernesta organize a weekend at the summer house with a families. It was suppose to be a quiet weekend at countryside.

Jesus Camp - Q&A with Co-Directors Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady
Jul 22 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.

Predators - Q&A with Director David Osit
Jul 23 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Exploring the controversial NBC series that caught potential child predators in sting operations, leading to arrests, and its eventual cancellation.

Monk In Pieces - Q&A with Director Billy Shebar
Jul 24 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?

Folktales - Q&A with Directors Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady
Jul 25 (7pm), Jul 26 (7pm), Jul 27 (1:40pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
In Norse mythology, the three "Norns" are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans' futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. Folktales tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional "gap year" learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world.

Diciannove
Q&A with Director Giovanni Tortorici
Jul 25 (7pm)
Q&A with Producer Luca Guadagnino
Jul 26 (7pm), Jul 27 (1pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A curious student embarks on a journey of self-discovery, learning that the path, no matter how unfamiliar or daunting, is worthwhile.

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley - Q&A with Director Amy Berg
Jul 29 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley's inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album.


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