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 August 22nd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Aug 22 (8pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

When Ashley asks for a divorce, the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. Their secret to happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.

Aug 22 (7:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Set on the last day of camp, in the hot summer of 1981, a group of counselors try to complete their unfinished business before the day ends.

Aug 22 (8pm), Aug 23 (8pm)

Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

Aug 22 (7:05pm), Aug 23 (7:05pm), Aug 24 (7:05pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Tells the story about strangers who show up at the same apartment to collect cash they're both owed. The pair, one of whom is hiding a terrible secret, are sent on a journey across New York City.

Aug 23 (6pm)

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

Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.

Aug 23 (6:15pm)

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

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Aug 23 (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?

Aug 24 (12:15pm)

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

Takes on a portrait of one of the 20th century's most controversial military figures -- Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap, who over three decades led his nation to eventual victory on the battlefield -- at a staggering cost -- over both France and the United States.

Aug 24 (5pm)

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.

Aug 24 (7:15pm)

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.

Aug 25 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, Zionist 'kibbutznik' settlers in Palestine in the 1930's, she begins a personal endeavor unpacking and confronting the appropriative origins of this inherited dance.

Aug 25 (7pm SOLD OUT)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

Aug 27 (7:15pm, 8pm), Aug 28 (7:15pm, 8pm), Aug 29 (7:15pm, 8pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.

Aug 29 (7pm), Aug 30 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

In the midst of her whole life falling apart, Kennedy attempts to somehow reconnect with her dead father, searching for permission to live her own life within a wild pool-hopping escape through the elaborate estates of her college town.

Aug 29 (7:15pm), Aug 30 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

After a night of partying, David drunkenly falls from a terrace while his friend Juan watches helplessly. David's body hits a car hood and shatters into a thousand pieces. Since no one else seems shocked by this, Juan sets out to discover what happened, finding himself immersed in a labyrinth of fleeting romances, unbreakable friendships and pianos falling from the sky.

Aug 29 (6pm), Aug 30 (3:15pm), Aug 31 (3:15pm)

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

A young married couple's baby daughter goes missing and suspicion falls on their voyeur neighbor.

Aug 29 (7pm), Aug 30 (7pm)

Aug 31 (4:30pm)

Angelika Film NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A man tries to protect his daughter-in-law when he finds out that his son is having an affair.

Aug 31 (5:30pm)

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

A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.

Sep 1 (6pm)

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

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

Sep 4 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

At experimental sleep clinic, Somnium, dreams are made real. Side effects may include: hallucinations, confusion, paranoia, sleep paralysis, detachment from reality, lost sense of self, permanent nightmares.

Sep 4 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.

Sep 5 (6pm), Sep 6 (3:30pm)

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

This documentary excavates Leni Riefenstahl's self-fashioned myth, drawing from newly uncovered personal archives to expose her complicity and the machinery behind her cinematic legacy.

Sep 5 (7:15pm), Sep 6 (4:40pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

Sep 5 (7pm), Sep 6 (4pm, 7pm), Sep 7 (4pm)

Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

Three Hungarian women - a journalist, a nurse and an opposition politician - fight in different ways to expose corruption and lies in Viktor Orbán's Hungary. But they face a lot of resistance from several quarters.

Sep 5 (6:50pm), Sep 6 (6:50pm), Sep 7 (2:10pm)

IFC Center (23 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

An intimate and unprecedented look into the life and legacy of Elie Wiesel, one of the most profound voices of our time. With exclusive access to Wiesel's family and personal archives, the film delves into the passions, struggles, and enduring impact of a man who became a powerful voice for human rights.

Sep 6 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

Sep 6 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Life after Hurricane Katrina as the residents of New Orleans try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the USA.

Sep 7 (3:30pm)

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

Based on investigative reporting by Bloomberg News' Olivia Carville, the film follows the Social Media Victims Law Center fighting for justice on behalf of families whose children suffered tragic consequences linked to social media use.

Sep 7 (4:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Sep 8 (7:15pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A waitress lives with her two teen daughters in a trailer park in New Mexico. They all want a boyfriend.

Sep 10 (7pm)

A tragicomedy following a vagabond ex-musician who, after Injuring his tooth being evicted from an abandoned apartment, embarks on a journey to fix it, encountering all manners of eccentric characters and a very old friend along the way.

Sep 12 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A woman, grieving her daughter's death in the Christchurch quakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite school. Unexpectedly, she discovers students lacking guidance and care, prompting her to provide inspiration and support.

Sep 12 (7:45pm), Sep 13 (7:45pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

17-year-old Johanne drifts and daydreams like any teenager, until one day her restlessness morphs into all-consuming passion for her charismatic French teacher, Johanna.

Sep 14 (3pm)

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

While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.

Sep 16 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In 1970 NYC, anti-Vietnam War student protesters confronted construction workers in violent clashes, creating a cultural rift that transformed American politics.

Sep 17 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis"

Sep 18 (7pm)

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

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

Sep 21 (4pm)

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

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Sep 24 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

Sep 25 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

For over forty years, the Cornelia Street Cafe was more than just a café; it was a vibrant, eclectic haven for artists, poets, and musicians, lovingly nurtured by its visionary owner, Robin Hirsch. This film chronicles its extraordinary journey, celebrating the unforgettable voices and cherished memories that filled its iconic walls.

Sep 28 (4:05pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

Sep 29 (6:55pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.