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 April 3rd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

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 3 (7:15pm), Apr 5 (3pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

At 79, sculptor James Grashow spends four years crafting his masterwork - an enormous, detailed wooden sculpture called "The Cathedral."

Apr 4 (9:15pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

On their first summer back from college Curtis, Jimmy, and Abe, set out to have a lit night at Curtis's ex girlfriend's house. Things go awry when Curtis can't handle his emotions.

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 6 (6:30pm)

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

A woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patron of the Times Square porn theater called Variety where she works selling tickets. This awakens her sexuality, which confuses her worried boyfriend.

Apr 6 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Elvira Notari, Italy's first female director, left only 163 minutes of surviving footage. Despite few records of her life remaining, her work is experiencing a renaissance, sparked by scholars' rediscovery in the 1970s.

Apr 8 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Selected scenes from across his celebrated body of work.

Apr 8 (7pm)

Titus Theater 1 MoMA (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Apr 9

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

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most - each other.

Apr 8 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Four years after being shot with an AR-15 in her high school, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter.

Apr 8 (7pm, 9:30pm)

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 (6pm)

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

Isabel Pagliai merges fiction and documentary revealing her protagonist via diary entries and inner worlds.

Apr 9 (7pm)

Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)

College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates. Through his new experiences, he struggles to understand the side of himself he has always turned his back on in order to fit in.

Apr 9 (7pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

Two directionless siblings are blackmailed into the world of organized crime.

Apr 9 (8:15pm)

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

Apr 10 (6pm)

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

Aro Berria—Basque for “new age”—resurrects a largely overwritten episode in the story of Spain’s transition to democracy, observing with sensitivity as idealists test the limits of the moment’s radical possibilities.

Apr 9 (8:30pm)

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

Apr 10 (6pm)

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

Helder, a kind-hearted pastor in Manjacaze, doubts his faith and secretly turns to other forces. At first, it works, until it doesn't.

Apr 9 (7:30pm), Apr 10 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.

Apr 9 (7pm), Apr 11 (3pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Hamlet comes home for his father's funeral and finds his uncle Claudius marrying his widowed mother Gertrude. His father's ghost reveals Claudius murdered him, leading Hamlet toward revenge and introspection.

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 10 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A cam girl navigates a toxic client relationship while reconnecting with her estranged, dying father, exploring complex relationships and family dynamics.

Apr 10 (7:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Citizens of Rijeka, which Italians call Fiume, retell, reconstruct, and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in 1919 by the Italian poet, a dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Apr 10 (6:45pm), Apr 11 (6:45pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

In a derelict Gothic mansion on the outskirts of London, we join eight actors – four Macbeths and four Lady Macbeths – for eleven days with Cheek By Jowl. Working in pairs, they investigate key scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy.

Apr 10 (7pm), Apr 11 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

A documentary filmmaker depends on his friend's airline employee benefits for free flights. When the friend finds a girlfriend, he desperately tries to preserve his travel privileges.

Apr 10 (8:30pm)

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

Apr 11 (1pm)

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

Through 70 years of found footage, home movies, and media archives, Beirut's vibrant soul emerges - revealing intimate moments of joy and loss that shaped Lebanon's cultural memory, despite the absence of official records.

Apr 11 (2:30pm)

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

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

Apr 11 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer, Louis Batiste, is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.

Apr 11 (5:30pm)

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

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.

Apr 11 (6pm)

AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)

The children of a once famous artist hire a forger to complete some unfinished, long ago abandoned canvases so they'll have an inheritance when he dies.

Apr 11 (7:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

The children of a once famous artist hire a forger to complete some unfinished, long ago abandoned canvases so they'll have an inheritance when he dies.

Apr 11 (7pm)

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

A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.

Apr 11 (7:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

Apr 11 (5pm), Apr 12 (2:45pm)

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

After being bullied at school, a pregnant teen's family sets out to move from the city to the countryside, unexpectedly revealing a coveted secret of her past that threatens the fresh start they seek.

Apr 11 (5:30pm)

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

Apr 12 (1pm)

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

After 14 years, Hein returns to his island village, but the community doesn't recognize him and demands a trial to prove his identity.

Apr 11 (8:30pm)

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

Apr 12 (6:45pm)

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

While cycling along the Danube with his family, 16-year-old Didac encounters a mysterious boy in the river. This meeting changes their trip and affects Didac's family dynamics.

Apr 12 (4:30pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

THE SIGHT UNSEEN is a hybrid film that explores the miraculous, spiritual event witnessed by Sharon Wilson and her family in the Bronx in 1971, when a glowing cross appeared in their apartment window.

Apr 12 (5:15pm)

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.

Apr 12 (4pm)

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

Apr 14 (8:45pm)

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

As the fictional Olympic Games of Ludoj 2024 approaches, AGON shows the stories of three athletes as they prepare and then compete in rifle shooting, fencing and judo.

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 13 (6pm)

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

Apr 14 (8:15pm)

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

Milo, 9, studies Malambo dance in a remote Argentine village. Though talented, he dreams only of taking a train to Buenos Aires to leave rural life behind.

Apr 13 (8:15pm)

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

Apr 14 (6pm)

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

A father dies; his family cares for the deceased and prepares him for his next life. The American setting and way of life intertwine with Buddhist beliefs and customs in a Tibetan family exiled in the United States.

Apr 13 (7pm), Apr 15 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Ben McKenzie explores cryptocurrency in his directorial debut, moving from curiosity to exposing harsh truths. His documentary both educates and entertains while delivering a powerful critique of the crypto world.

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 15 (6:30pm)

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

Film student Sam uncovers a hard drive chronicling forgotten Giallo director Saturnino Barresi's life. Investigating his disappearance, she's drawn into a violent conspiracy mirroring the horror films she loves.

Apr 15 (6pm)

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

Apr 16 (8:45pm)

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

In bustling Tokyo, Ren delivers delicate orchids across the city, carrying the weight of his mother's absence and years of silence between him and his father, until one delivery changes everything.

Apr 15 (6pm)

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

Apr 16 (8:45pm)

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

Óscar has escaped from rehab, while his brother Mario is afflicted and confounded by "images that don't belong to him." One has disappeared physically, the other mentally.

Apr 15 (7pm with Actor David Jonsson), Apr 16 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Follows parolee Taylor whose fresh start hopes are jeopardized by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own parole chances.

Apr 16 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, which triggers chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.

Apr 16 (7pm)

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

Beach balls. Doctor boners. Farts. Snow. This film, starring Cocoon Central Dance Team, just might have invented its own genre: comedy-dance-sketch-fantasy.

Apr 16 (7:45pm)

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

Ben McKenzie explores cryptocurrency in his directorial debut, moving from curiosity to exposing harsh truths. His documentary both educates and entertains while delivering a powerful critique of the crypto world.

Apr 16 (6pm)

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

Apr 17 (6pm)

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

How can the cycle of violence that shapes children and is passed through generations be broken?

Apr 16 (6pm)

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

Apr 17 (8:45pm)

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

Three women rotate caring for an Alpine hut. As hikers pass through the seasons, tales emerge and dissolve, leaving them to contemplate their solitary lives amid nature's poetry.

Apr 17 (6:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In order to inherit his fed-up father Brian's hotel empire, immature and lazy Billy Madison must repeat grades one through twelve all over again. The further Billy progresses, the harder his hated rival Eric Gordon tries to stop him.

Apr 17 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue)

As a youth growing up in Harlem's Washington Carver Projects in the 1970s and 80s, Alaudin Ullah found himself through hip-hop and graffiti. He turned away from his Bangladeshi Muslim parents and rejected everything South Asian. Now, as an actor facing the most stereotypical South Asian and Muslim roles, he realizes he has nothing but stereotypes about his own father and mother; he knows nothing about who they were and about the lives they led.

Apr 17 (6:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

The career of Tahar Cheriaa, one of the core fathers of Pan-Africanism and founder of Africa's first film festival, the Carthage Film Festival.

Apr 17 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

A dangerous experiment goes awry resulting in a Dance Freak running wild.

Apr 17 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.

Apr 17 (7pm), Apr 18 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Summer in The Bronx. He sells "nutcracker" cocktails, gets high, stays moving. Then she moves in. Two kids in a cramped apartment, playing house until the city reminds them how fast the streets make you grow up.

Apr 17 (6pm)

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

Apr 19 (6pm)

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

While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight: stay strong and make money fast.

Apr 17 (8:45pm)

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

Apr 19 (3pm)

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

In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet seaside exchanging distant looks and clumsy words in the rainy ocean. In winter, screenwriter Li arrives at a snowy village meeting Benzo at his guesthouse. Despite disconnected talks they embark together.

Apr 17 (6pm), Apr 23 (6:30pm)

Apr 19 (8:10pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Macabee Cohen, whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes. His beloved Lower East Side neighborhood is in turmoil: rampant real estate speculation, tenants on rent strike, art invading the bars

Apr 18 (3:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Two eccentric best friends graduate high school and respond to a man's romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag, only to find their lives becoming increasingly complicated.

Apr 18 (5:30pm)

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

When contaminated meat is placed in the freezer next to that used for a fast food chain's most famous sandwich, a marketing executive seeks to find out who did it and why, taking a journey through the dark side of American alimentation.

Apr 18 (6:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Daria Kashcheeva, whose short Daughter, a dialogue-free work tenderly exploring the strained relationship between a father and daughter, was nominated for a 2020 Academy Award, joins Metrograph to present that film and her lauded follow-up, Electra, alongside three of her carte-blanche picks.

Apr 18 (6pm)

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

Apr 19 (5:30pm)

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

Sisters battle for mom's affection. Back home, they face puzzling discoveries: mystery ashes and their mother's bond with a donkey. Their path leads toward healing their relationship.

Apr 18 (7:10pm), Apr 19 (7:10pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

The combustible chemistry between a Polish florist and a British tourist in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity.

Apr 18 (8pm)

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

Apr 19 (1:30pm)

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

An elderly goatherd in South Africa reflects on her life in a collection of linked short stories about village life.

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 19 (8:45pm)

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

A young Chinese artist navigates between Berlin's queer community and her traditional Beijing family, seeking her place amid global cultural divides.

Apr 20 (6pm)

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

A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.

Apr 20 (7pm)

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

A dysfunctional married couple retreats to a secluded cabin to repair their relationship, but each secretly plots to murder the other.

Apr 20 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.

Apr 21 (5:20pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.

Apr 22 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

This is the story of 7 graff hunters, individuals addicted to photographing and sharing graffiti in NYC and the world. Relentless and passionate about their obsession, they discuss why they do it, and why they can't stop.

Apr 23 (9:30pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

In a future, private underground prison/Fortress, the inmates are computer controlled with CCTV, dream readers and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife are inside but want to escape before birth.

Apr 24 (7pm, 7:30pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

A London theater play evolves into a groundbreaking cult phenomenon, featuring iconic songs and performances that celebrate individuality. The legacy lives on through midnight screenings and a devoted following that spans generations.

Apr 24 (7:30pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

When an opportunity for twisted notoriety arises, a tormented 13-year old, Sammy, enlists in a deadly competition.

Apr 24 (7pm), Apr 25 (4:45pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A complex look at one of the greatest figures in 20th century classical music, Leonard Bernstein, whose passion and creativity guided him well beyond the concert hall.

Apr 24 (7pm), Apr 25 (8pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet seaside exchanging distant looks and clumsy words in the rainy ocean. In winter, screenwriter Li arrives at a snowy village meeting Benzo at his guesthouse. Despite disconnected talks they embark together.

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 25 (2:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.

Apr 25 (7:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

Apr 25 (6:30pm), Apr 26 (1:40pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Two struggling mothers grapple with unfulfilled expectations and societal pressures. As they navigate their roles as wives and professionals, one woman's unexpected affair sparks a reevaluation of their lives and priorities.

Apr 26 (12:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Conbody vs Everybody is the story of a tight-knit group of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who forge a pact for their mutual survival as they re-enter society after prison. Together they create a zone of acceptance for people reentering, in the form of an underground gym.

Apr 27 (7pm)

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

Heavy Healing dives into the worlds of metal, hardcore punk, and underground hip-hop to reveal how loud music scenes become lifelines for people navigating disability, illness, trauma, and mental health challenges.

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 28 (6:30pm), Apr 29 (6:30pm), May 1 (6:30pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Conbody vs Everybody is the story of a tight-knit group of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who forge a pact for their mutual survival as they re-enter society after prison. Together they create a zone of acceptance for people reentering, in the form of an underground gym.

Apr 29 (6:30pm)

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

A burned out young woman joins a secret society of traumatized adults who heal through childlike play.

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 3 (6pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.

May 3 (9pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

As he mulls over the budget for his new film, director-gangster Clem sends his artist cronies after an old comrade rumoured to be a leaker.

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.

May 12 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

After a life-altering accident, Ryan returns home for a birthday luau and uncovers the secret of when things took a tragic turn.