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 13th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Mar 13 (7pm)

UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Queens)

Combining a humorous and affectionate family portrait, a historical film and a search for identity, Defectors confronts the impact of the Korean War on different generations. Through encounters with a North Korean defector, Hyun kyung Kim reflects on her separation from her loved ones - such as her whimsical mother, whom she left behind in Korea upon moving to the United States.

Mar 13 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Corey Feldman embarks on a surreal rock tour with lingerie-clad 'angels', facing disastrous events that compel him to confront Hollywood abuse allegations and personal secrets.

Mar 13 (7:15pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

13-year-old Nawi finds out her father is selling her to a much older man for a herd of goats. Instead of obeying tradition she chooses to fight her impending marriage and embarks on a journey to reclaim her dream of joining high school.

Mar 13 (6:40pm), Mar 14 (6:40pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography, looks back on creating iconic moments in film and television, while he tries to turn a dreamlike vision into reality.

Mar 13 (6:45pm), Mar 14 (6:45pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A therapy group faces unexpected challenges when a new member joins their sessions, bringing hidden motives that threaten their delicate dynamic and mutual trust.

Mar 13 (7:30pm), Mar 14 (7:30pm)

Spectacle Theater (124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn)

Rival conceptual artists battle for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck.

Mar 14 (12:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A teen vanishes on her birthday in winter on the French Riviera. Géraldine from the mayor's office investigates amid swirling rumors. Her mother's return complicates matters in a village where minor crimes abound.

Mar 14 (3pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

An actor reconnecting with his estranged daughter while preparing a one-man show about Victor Hugo.

Mar 14 (5:45pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Commissaire Maigret investigates the murder of a former ambassador in the Quai d'Orsay, and its connection to a decades long affair with a recently widowed princess.

Mar 14 (8:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Mar 14 (7:30pm), Mar 15 (2:30pm)

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

Documentary film that shows how Manasseh brings together Jews of all colors and is building bridges that will serve as the foundation for a revitalized alliance of African Americans and Jews while creating a new style of activist Judaism that takes the religion out of the synagogue and into the streets.

Mar 15 (12pm)

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

The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.

Mar 15 (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.

Mar 16 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

A sharp look at the American South's unreconciled history through Natchez, a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past.

Mar 16 (6:30pm), Mar 17 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Mar 17 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater at FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.

Mar 17 (9pm)

Walter Reade Theater at FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of a Berlin hospital by her husband, Pierre. After seeing Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but neither Toni nor Pierre believe her. Nina is unsure about what to think...

Mar 17 (6:15pm), Mar 19 (6:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In the lead-up to Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City, many of the city's Jewish population found themselves at odds over the candidate's positions on Palestine and Israel. By inviting viewers into the homes of New Yorkers on both sides of the campaign, Alison Klayman reveals a fierce battle among American Jews over identity, history, and responsibility.

Mar 18 (7pm moderated by Cynthia Nixon), Mar 19 (7pm), Mar 20 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.

Mar 18 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater at FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Mar 18 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Julie Wyman seeks her place in the Little People community as dwarf identity evolves. Uncovering family rumors of "partial dwarfism," she joins dwarf artists to challenge and address the rise of height-altering pharmaceuticals.

Mar 18 (7pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Ornithologist Ellen Vuosalo was born in Finland, married in Ottawa, and lived in Iran witnessing huge social changes with compassion, intelligence and grace. She played an old silent piano in her Finnish designed home, loved her 12 cats and her grown son.

Mar 18 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

With a piano strapped to the back of his truck, a nomadic street musician drives 2,000 miles north to Canada on an emotional mission to spread his mother's ashes.

Mar 18 (9pm)

Walter Reade Theater at FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.

Mar 19 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap experiments.

Mar 19 (8:30pm)

Walter Reade Theater at FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Thomas falls for a mysterious woman named Leyla. As soon as he makes a connection with her, she vanishes, leaving Thomas desperate to find the object of his obsession. When he uncovers a connection between Leyla and Blum, a member of a re-socialization program, he rushes to find her before she disappears once again.

Mar 19 (7:20pm), Mar 20 (7:30pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

An intimate, unconventional portrait of Marc Jacobs, crafted by Sofia Coppola to capture the genius and singular universe of the iconic American designer.

Mar 19 (7:40pm), Mar 20 (7:40pm), Mar 21 (7:40pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.

Mar 20 (7pm), Mar 21 (4:15pm, 7pm)

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

Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.

Mar 20 (7:45pm), Mar 21 (5:15pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.

Mar 20 (7:20pm), Mar 21 (7:20pm)

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

Two adolescent lovers flee society, and escape to the mountainous center of Puerto Rico.

Mar 20 (7pm), Mar 21 (7pm), Mar 22 (2:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Explores achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving the way for the next generation of female space explorers.

Mar 20 (7:30pm), Mar 21 (7:50pm), Mar 22 (2:50pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

The true story of Amanda Ogle, a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and car after receiving a tow bill for $21,634.

Mar 23 (6:30pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A struggling Hollywood actress returns home to Kangaroo Island, confronting the love triangle that tore her family apart.

Mar 23 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A certain atmosphere of horror is felt the week before the celebration of an unfortunate wedding.

Mar 24 (6:45pm)

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

A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai.

Mar 24 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed--if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her.

Mar 24 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

Follows the life of brutally self-aware, promiscuous, love addict Stella Fox, who moves to New York after a devastating breakup, and all her disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer.

Mar 24 (7pm)

Mar 26 (6pm), Mar 27 (7:15pm), Mar 28 (7:15pm), Mar 29 (2:40pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

An actress (Amanda Peet) falls for the anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.

Mar 25 (6:30pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

From peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.

Mar 25 (7pm), Mar 26 (6:45pm)

Mar 27 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A jazz musician and his dancer wife Jasmine offer their artistic talents to help their nation after the October 7 attacks, with the musician tasked with composing a new national anthem.

Mar 26 (7pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Deep in the Choctaw Nation of rural Oklahoma rages a fight to preserve the Kiamichi River, reckoning with a cycle of land loss for the Indigenous diaspora and the community at large.

Mar 27 (7pm)

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

After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen's tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.

Mar 27 (7pm)

Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)

Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he’s convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence.

Mar 28 (4pm)

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

After a drug-fueled car crash, ex-private schoolboys Ayden and Jesse escape into the Melbourne CBD and are plunged into a night of unbridled debauchery and rapidly escalating violence.

Mar 28 (7pm)

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

The foundations of Grayson Manor are shaken when an accident leaves Boyd Grayson handless and his mother invests in radical new technology to help him.

Mar 29 (1pm)

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

The world learns that an earth-shattering meteorite will arrive in 72 hours.

Apr 2 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A reject city teenager follows some hot radicals and finds themself in the woods. An eco-parable produced by a mutual aid collective, shot on 16mm and portions hand-processed with plants.

Apr 2 (7pm), Apr 3 (7pm), Apr 4 (7pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

To maximize economic productivity, the Brazilian government orders elderly people to move to remote housing colonies. A 77-year-old woman refuses and embarks on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny forever.

Apr 5 (12pm)

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

Adapted from the 14th-century memoir of mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich, this account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt is the first book in English authored by a woman.

Apr 5 (7:30pm)

UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Queens)

This series of films favors ambiguity and resists resolution. The nearer the gaze, the more obscure the view. Illegibility here is not an escape from politics, but a way of inhabiting it differently: as a site of tension, friction, and possibility.

Apr 8 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Selected scenes from across his celebrated body of work.

Apr 8 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

UPS Teamsters build solidarity among 340,000 workers as a strike deadline approaches. The film follows a new California driver, a 1997 strike veteran in New York, and a part-time Kentucky warehouse worker as they organize and picket.

Apr 9 (6:30pm), Apr 10 (6:50pm), Apr 11 (1:30pm, 6:50pm), Apr 12 (1:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please. is a gripping portrait of a journalist whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history.

Apr 13 (7pm)

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

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?

Apr 14 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

The portrait of a ten-year-old African-American boy with a warm personality, an infectious smile and full-blown AIDS.

Apr 19 (3:30pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Apr 19 (7:30pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Renowned social media influencer Dzanielle navigates fake friends among the Black card-swiping, workout-addicted Upper East Siders of New York. In her comedic quest for a million followers, she finds her first real new friend and her true self.

Apr 24 (7:15pm), Apr 25 (7:15pm), Apr 26 (2:45pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Set in 1970, A BLIND BARGAIN reimagines the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name. A desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.

Apr 28 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a quiet queer icon, captivated readers everywhere with her accessible celebration of nature, dogs, and life itself.

Apr 29 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

Before he went on to direct Jawbreaker (1999) Sparkler (1997) Darren Stein grew up making videos. Along with his friend 'Adam Shell' and the other neighborhood kids these young film makers touched on such adult subjects as jealousy, cruelty, and sexuality.

May 5 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A director and his mother document their Puerto Rican family over 20 years, facing loss. Through animation, they celebrate memories while realizing each creation involves a painful goodbye.