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 October 16th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem - Q&A with Co-Directors David Greaves & Liani Greaves
Oct 16 (6pm, 7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A decade post-death, filmmaker William Greaves reveals his final work: footage of a 1972 gathering he arranged with Harlem Renaissance legends, which he deemed his most significant capture.
The Great Experiment - Q&A with Steve Maing
Oct 16 (7:15pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Black and white vignettes document daily political life in the United States from 2017 to 2020.
Paris Was a Woman - Q&A with Director Greta Schiller, Writer Andrew Weiss
Oct 16 (6:40pm), Oct 17 (2:30pm), Oct 18 (6:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Female artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers are settled in Paris between the wars.
A Place of Absence - Q&A with Director/Producer Marialuisa Ernst
Oct 16 (7pm), Oct 17 (2pm, 7pm), Oct 18 (7:30pm), Oct 21 (7pm), Oct 22 (8:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
This poetic film follows director Marialuisa's journey with Anita and Leticia, Central American women traveling with the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants.
Mario - Q&A with Co-Director Teddy Kunhardt and others
Oct 18 (7pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Ronald Reagan's America sets the stage for Mario Cuomo, the son of Italian immigrants who rose to become Governor of New York and, in his defining 1984 DNC speech, offered a powerful vision of leadership rooted in compassion.
Sweet Rush (Tatarak) - Q&A with Actor Pawel Szajda
Oct 19 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In small-town Poland in the late 1950s, an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. Framed around this story, lead actress Krystyna Janda discusses the death of her husband from cancer.
On a String - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Isabel Hagen
Oct 20 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A Juilliard-trained violist navigates the New York City freelance classical musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the personal lives of strangers, all while living in her oddball family's NYC apartment.
The Choice - Q&A with Director John David Coles
Oct 20 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
A haunting yet life-affirming film about trauma, resilience, and the radical power of choice. A grieving mother forms a bond with psychologist Dr. Edith Eger, a bestselling author whose therapy practice transforms pain into the possibility of freedom.
Tell Everyone - Q&A with Director Alli Haapasalo, Actress Marketta Tikkanen
Oct 21 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Amanda, confined to a remote asylum island, defies the bleak destiny society imposes on unwanted women.
One in a Million - Q&A with Directors Itab Azzam & Jack MacInnes
Oct 21 (7pm), Oct 22 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A Syrian girl's decade-long journey to Germany and back, as she and her family face the challenges of war and life as refugees, showing both the hardships and hopes of starting anew.
Capturing Bigfoot - Q&A with Director Marq Evans, Producer Tamir Ardon
Oct 22 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A decades-old film discovered after half a century contains footage that could rewrite our understanding of the legendary cryptid and force experts to reconsider long-held beliefs about its existence.
Walesa: Man of Hope - Q&A with Actor Robert Wieckiewicz
Oct 22 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
Music Video Mischief with Director Nigel Dick
Oct 23 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Music videos for Cher, Celine Dion, Brittney Spears, Oasis, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard and more.
First We Bombed New Mexico - Q&A with Writer/Director Lois Lipman, film participant Tina Cordova
Oct 23 (7pm), Oct 24 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Tina Cordova leads the fight for justice for majority Indigenous and Latino Nuevomexicano communities in New Mexico. Locals have suffered for decades as a result of radiation produced by the world's first atomic attack at Trinity.
Fatherland - Q&A with Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski
Oct 23 (8:30pm), Oct 24 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
At the height of the Cold War, Fatherland centers on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika—actress, writer and rally driver—as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a Germany in ruins.
The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony - Q&A with Director Habiba Nosheen
Oct 23 (7:30pm), Oct 24 (7:30pm), Oct 25 (12:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
The birth of a gymnastics team in Pakistan provides an inspiring spark of light for a small group of girls on the margins.
State Funeral - Q&A with Writer/Director Sergei Loznitsa
Oct 24 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.
Dead Media - Q&A with Actor Anna Sundberg
Oct 24 (9:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
The story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that won't die.
On the Road - Q&A with Director David Pablos
Oct 25 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A drifter who sleeps with truckers meets a reserved driver and joins him hauling freight across northern Mexico. As they grow closer on the road, the drifter's past threatens them both.
Mouse - Q&A with Directors Kelly O'Sullivan & Alex Thompson, Actors Sophie Okonedo, Tara Mallen & Katherine Mallen Kupferer
Oct 27 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In 2002, best friends Minnie and Callie's relationship is upended on the eve of their senior year.
Obsession - Q&A with Writer/Director Curry Barker
Oct 28 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Habit - Q&A with Writer/Director Larry Fassenden
Oct 28 (8:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in a gritty, real life New York City, alcoholic Sam meets up with a modern day succubus who marks him and controls his will. As his world unravels he slowly figures out what is happening and has to figure out what to do.
Closure - Q&A with Writer/Director Michal Marczak
Oct 28 (6:45pm), Oct 29 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
Nonfiction By Any Means Necessary - Q&A with Documentarian Tracii McGregor
Oct 30 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Joe Gotta Go - Coverage of historic mayoral race in Selma, Alabama in 2000.
The Forgotten Ones - Tells the story of Willie "Billy Brown" Smith, a spry elder Black man who spent nearly 40 years living on and off the streets of Hollywood, California.
Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers - Q&A with Director John Cunningham, Producer Ted Haynes, Editor Richard Lowe & Production Supervisor Caitlin Tartaro
Oct 30 (8:45pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary about Jimmy Buffett's 1970s Coral Reefer Band, their party lifestyle, and role in creating his sound.
Who Killed Alex Odeh?
Oct 30 (7:20pm), Oct 31 (3pm, 5:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A Palestinian American activist's murder in Southern California sparks a 40-year search for justice, exposing the origins of a modern political movement's dangerous ideology.
Love Chaos Kin - Q&A with Director/Producer Chithra Jeyaram
Oct 30 (7pm), Nov 1 (3pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
An Indian immigrant mother helps her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.
Adult Supervision (Arkipelag) - Q&A with Director Alex Schulman
Nov 2 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
When a middle-aged man joins his 13-year-old daughter on a school trip in an attempt to repair their relationship, he soon finds himself caught up in conflicts that stir dark memories from his past.
The Ground Beneath Our Feet / Jörðin undir fótum okkar - Q&A with Director Yrsa Roca Fannberg
Nov 4 (7pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A sensitive and humanistic film about life at the end of life, when there is nowhere to go after Grund but the ground itself.
Trauma or, Monsters All - Q&A with Writer/Director Larry Fassenden
Nov 4 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A writer investigating her town's dark past for a newspaper article stirs up fears about lurking monsters. Larry Fessenden's final chapter of his quadrilogy works as a standalone or series finale.
Tickled - Q&A with Director David Farrier
Nov 6 (7pm), Nov 8 (5pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
Testament - Q&A with Director Lynne Littman
Nov 7 (12:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
After Yang & Verse - Q&A with Directors Kogonada & Noam Argov, respectively
Nov 7 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After Yang: In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.
Verse: Seventeen year-old Adam is forced to confront where his virtual persona ends and his real self begins when he decides to finally meet his VR girlfriend in real life.
Minotaur - Q&A with Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nov 19 (6pm), Nov 20 (7:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence unravels when professional crises, global chaos, and marital betrayal converge, pushing him toward a dangerous breaking point.
XI. Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent - Q&A with Director Andrzej Wolf
Nov 10 (7:30pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Mr. Marian Turski, the world-renowned historian, journalist, and until his recent passing, president of the International Auschwitz Committee, takes us back to the roots of evil. A survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt death camps in his youth, Turski explains with firsthand knowledge and surgical precision how otherwise well-educated and cultured people can, under certain circumstances, turn into criminals and mass murderers.
Dinner With Friends - Q&A with Writer/Director Sasha Leigh Henry
Nov 20 (7pm), Nov 22 (3pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Eight friends struggle to hold on to their group as they reach their mid-thirties. Growing up is hard, staying close is harder.
Desperately Seeking Susan - Q&A with Director Susan Seidelman
Dec 6 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.