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 November 13th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
In Bed With Victoria - Intro by Actress Virginie Efira
Nov 13 (9:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Tricenarian lawyer Victoria is struggling with her past and looking for stability and true love in her life. Finally she realizes that love should not always be sought.
Rediscovering Fanon - Q&A with Director Rico Speight
Nov 13 (6pm), Nov 15 (5:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Documentary that reexamines the life and ideas of revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon, connecting his analysis of race, colonialism, and human liberation to contemporary struggles across the globe.
Kikuyu Land - Q&A with Director/Producer/subject Bea Wangondu, Producer Moses Bwayo
Nov 13 (7pm), Nov 14 (6:30pm), Nov 15 (1pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
In Kenya's tea highlands, one man's claim to his family's stolen land sets him on a path against multinational giant. His fight draws a local news producer into a battle that exposes the unfinished business of colonial power.
threeASFOUR: Full Circle - Q&A with Co-Director Sean Ono Lennon
Nov 13 (7pm), Nov 14 (7pm), Nov 15 (2:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Avant-garde NYC designers Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil create "couture-on-the-street" designs in a radical collaborative act shaped by war, identity, and hope.
Club Kid - Q&A with Actors Miss Benny, Alaska Riley, Eldar Isgandarov
Nov 14 (6:45pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.
Yaniv - Q&A with Writer/Director Amnon Carmi, Writer/Actor Ben Ducoff
Nov 15 (3:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
After funding is cut for the school musical, a high school teacher resolves to earn it back by cheating at an underground card game run by the Hasidic Jewish community.
The Altruists (Ep 1) & The Imitation Game - Q&A with Writer/Producer Graham Moore, Actor/Producer Julia Garner
Nov 16 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Follows the tumultuous romance between FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried and his girlfriend Caroline Ellison. It depicts their ambitious attempts to revolutionize the financial system, leading to a $36 billion fraud.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (episode of Season 3) - Q&A with Actors Walker Scobell, Leah Sava' Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Tamara Smart, & Levi Chrisopulos
Nov 19 (5:30pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Demigod Percy Jackson leads a quest across America to prevent a war among the Olympian gods.
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.
Ash and Crayons - Q&A with Director Evgeny Afineevsky
Nov 20 (6:30pm), Nov 21 (4pm), Nov 22 (11:45am)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Seven Ukrainian children demonstrate resilience while facing catastrophic injuries and forcible deportations during the ongoing war, their stories told through verité footage and animation by Ukrainian artists.
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.
All of a Sudden - Q&A with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Nov 20 (6:30pm), Nov 22 (12:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Marie-Lou runs a nursing home near Paris and strives for more humane elder care. Her friendship with Mari, a Japanese theatre director facing terminal cancer, deepens her commitment to residents' dignity.
In the Hand of Dante - Q&A with Director Julian Schnabel
Nov 21 (3:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.
Ghost World - Q&A with Editor Michael R. Miller
Nov 21 (5:10pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow 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.
From Darkroom to Daylight - Q&A with Director Harvey Wang
Nov 21 (6:45pm)
Bronx Documentary Center Annex (364 East 151st Street, The Bronx)
Explores how the dramatic change from film to digital has affected photographers and their work. Photographer Harvey Wang, who began taking pictures as a teenager, was mid-career when the tools of his craft were made nearly obsolete with the transition to digital.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, Star Ellen Jovin
Nov 22 (4:45pm)
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.
Scarlet Girls - Q&A with Director Paula Cury
Nov 23 (6:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Through personal stories and vivid imagery, Scarlet Girls depicts women facing abortion stigma, forced motherhood, and hard decisions in a system denying their bodily autonomy.
Aquamarine - Q&A with Director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, Producer Susan Cartsonis
Nov 23 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Two teenage girls discover a mermaid in their beach club's swimming pool.
Tangles - Q&A with Bryan Cranston
Nov 27 (1:30pm, 2:05pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A young woman is forced to return to the conservative small town where her bizarre family lives to take care of her mother; she must deal with the cruel reality of her mother's Alzheimer disease, and become the daughter they need.
Scenes From The Divide - Q&A with Director Alison Klayman
Nov 30 (6pm)
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.
Little Children - Q&A with Actor Patrick Wilson
Nov 30 (6:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
WTO/99 - Q&A with Director Ian Bell
Nov 30 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO's impact on human rights, labor, and the environment.
The Last New Yorker - Q&A with Director Harvey Wang
Dec 1 (6:45pm)
Bronx Documentary Center Annex (364 East 151st Street, The Bronx)
Lenny is a small-time investor who's always managed by rolling the dice on Wall Street, but he just can't keep up with the times. When his luck finally runs out, his best friend Ruben hatches a plan to get them both out of town. But Lenny's not going anywhere. He's got two last rolls of the dice: one for the money, and one for the love of a beautiful mystery woman.
Possible Love - Extended intro with Director Lee Chang-dong, Actor Jeon Do-yeon
Dec 1 (8pm)
Asia Society ( Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Four strangers' paths cross by chance, leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment.
Lunar Sway - Q&A with Writer/Director Noah Butler, Actress Liza Weil
Dec 2 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
Cliff, a young man living in a desert town receives a surprise visit from his con-artist birth mother. Chaos ensues as he's led on a mysterious and wild trail of secrets.
An Eye For An Eye - Q&A with Director Tanaz Eshaghian
Dec 3 (6pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Convicted of murdering her husband, Tahereh served her sentence and now faces a ticking clock to negotiate with her in-laws who, under Sharia law, have the legal right to either execute her or forgive her - for a price.
Pride and Prejudice (episode screening) - Q&A with Writer Dolly Alderton, Actors Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, & Rufus Sewell
Dec 3 (7pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Elizabeth Bennet and wealthy landowner Fitzwilliam Darcy navigate pride and prejudice as obstacles in their complex relationship before finding love and marriage.
Museum Hours - Q&A with Director Jem Cohen
Dec 4 (7:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.
Time Indefinite - Q&A with Director Ross McElwee
Dec 5 (3:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn Levine - marriage something that he and his family never thought would happen for him - McElwee turns on the camera to film life as it happens in respect to this new phase in his life.
Day Night Day Night - Q&A with Director/Editor Julia Loktev, Editor Michael Taylor, Actress Luisa (Williams) Colon
Dec 5 (6pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity.
Precipice - Q&A with Director Abigail Child
Dec 5 (8pm), Dec 6 (5:30pm), Dec 8 (8:45pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A profoundly working-class community with an intense connection to its land and water is transformed into a pleasure paradise for the wealthy…all while the ground slips into the sea.
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.
Pinball - Q&A with Director Naveen Chaubal, Producer Bryn Silverman
Dec 6 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A young Iraqi immigrant in Kentucky grapples with his past, his family's displacement, and his pursuit of the American dream while navigating life in suburban Louisville.
Concessions - Q&A with Writer/Director Mas Bouzidi, Actors Rob Riordan, Jonathan Price, Lana Rockwell
Dec 6 (8pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
On the last day at the closing Royal Alamo Cinema, employees, outcasts and oddballs cross paths in interwoven stories of rejection, redemption, and fate.
Sapiro v. Ford: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford - Q&A with Director Gaylen Ross
Dec 8 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
The notoriously antisemitic automobile tycoon Henry Ford met his match when a Jewish lawyer named Aaron Sapiro brought a libel suit against him. Gaylen Ross's enlightening documentary tells the ultimate American David and Goliath story.
Film About A Father Who - Q&A with Writer/Director Lynne Sachs
Dec 14 (7pm), Dec 17 (4:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah.
La Gradiva - Q&A with Writer/Director Marine Atlan
Dec 16 (6:30pm), Dec 19 (6pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A group of high school students sets off on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii. They are seized by a sense of vertigo. They allow themselves to be overwhelmed by desire and anger, until they surrender completely.
La Gradiva - Q&A with Writer/Director Marine Atlan
Dec 17 (6:30pm), Dec 18 (6pm), Dec 19 (3pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A group of high school students sets off on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii. They are seized by a sense of vertigo. They allow themselves to be overwhelmed by desire and anger, until they surrender completely.
Feeders 2: Slay Bells - Q&A with Director Mark Polonia
Dec 17 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Aliens invade Earth over the Christmas holidays, and it's up to Santa Claus and his elves to save the world.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Dec 19 (2:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and the Cote d'Azur.