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 September 25th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
First They Came For My College - Q&A with Director Patrick Bresnan, Producer Harry W. Hanbury, and film participants Joshua Janniere & Amy Reid
Sep 25 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
When the Governor of Florida transforms a beloved public honors college in a political coup, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in a growing nation-wide assault on academic freedom.
A Break in the Rain - Q&A with Actors Michael O'Keefe & Elizabeth A. Davis
Sep 25 (7:10pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Jake Watson has been traveling for ten years since his wife died. After his son's death, he returns home and drives a limo to help his daughter-in-law. He meets singer Catriona Walsh and their two-week road trip helps them both heal.
Situations - Q&A with Writer/Director Greg Vrotsos
Sep 25 (7pm), Sep 26 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A Los Angeles based photographer navigates his way through a failing relationship.
The Scout - Q&A with Writer/Director Paula González-Nasser, Actress Mimi Davila
Sep 25 (6:30pm), Sep 26 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A New York City location scout photographs the homes of strangers for a T.V. pilot, stepping into their private lives while trying to satisfy her erratic employers.
Unzipped
Q&A with film subject Isaac Mizrahi, Director Douglas Keeve, EP Nina Santisi
Sep 25 (8pm), Sep 27 (3pm)
Q&A with film subject Isaac Mizrahi
Sep 26 (8pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
One of the most successful designers in high fashion plans his fall 1994 collection. Follow the behind-the-scenes look at the creative side of fashion.
Her Will Be done - Q&A with Director Julia Kowalski, Actress Roxane Mesquida
Sep 25 (4:30pm), Sep 27 (5:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In a remote village, Nawojka grapples with dark urges she believes stem from an ancestral curse. Her world shifts when Sandra moves in next door, offering a glimpse of freedom from her family's rigid control.
American Doctor - Q&A with Director Poh Si Teng
Sep 26 (2:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Peppermint Candy - Q&A with Director Lee Chang-dong, Actor Sul Kyung-gu
Sep 26 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Following a man's suicide, time traverses back to reveal six chapters of his life on why he committed suicide.
Take Me Home - Q&A with Director Liz Sargent
Sep 26 (4:25pm), Sep 27 (4:25pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Anna cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another's needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna's routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.
Wild Inside - Q&A with Producer Gabriel Sedgwick
Sep 27 (2:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.
American Doctor - Q&A with Director Poh Si Teng
Sep 27 (2:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! - Q&A with Josef Kubota Wladyka
Sep 27 (4:35pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo's ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor.
Fantasy Life - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Matthew Shear
Sep 27 (4:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
An actress falls for the anxious law school dropout babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus - Q&A with Cinematographer Bill Kirstein, Producer Albert Tholen
Sep 27 (5:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Ryuichi Sakamoto's last performance, a concert film featuring just him and his piano playing for the last time before passing away.
Dead Media - Q&A with Writer/Director Joseph Scrimshaw
Sep 27 (8pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
The story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that won't die.
Lady
Q&A with Writer/Director Samuel Abrahams, Actor Sian Clifford
Sep 28 (7pm)
Q&A with Writer/Director Samuel Abrahams
Oct 2 (6pm)
Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)
Lady Isabella, aspires to be in the spotlight, and local talent show 'Stately Stars' provides her a break. However, high pressures and a loss of self lead to a surreal situation on her grand estate.
The Last First: Winter K2 - Q&A with Director Amir Bar-Lev
Sep 30 (7pm), Oct 1 (6:50pm), Oct 2 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
K2's first winter ascent claimed 5 lives, revealing modern alpinism's struggles with commercialization, social media impact, and conflicts between marginalized climbers and traditional elites.
The History of Concrete - Q&A with Director John Wilson
Oct 1 (6:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A filmmaker applies lessons from a Hallmark movie writing workshop to pitch a documentary about concrete.
Begotten - Q&A with Director E. Elias Merhige
Oct 1 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
The Trial of Alec Baldwin - Q&A with Director Rory Kennedy, Writer/Producer Mark Bailey
Oct 1 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A provocative examination of celebrity haters, public vitriol, and the toxic price of fame.
Atonement - Q&A with Writer/Director Reed Van Dyk, Actor Boyd Holbrook
Oct 1 (7pm), Oct 2 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A troubled marine seeks to reconcile with the survivors of an Iraqi family he and his unit fired on back in 2003.
In Spite of Ourselves - Q&A with Writer/Director Josh Loeb
Oct 2 (7:10pm), Oct 3 (7:10pm with Actor Conor Leslie)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
After spending two blissful weeks together, Hannah and Archie confront the distance, doubts, and their own insecurities to see if their relationship can go the distance.
Free Leonard Peltier - Q&A with Directors Jesse Short Bull & David France
Oct 2 (6:30pm), Oct 3 (6:30pm), Oct 4 (1:15pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Leonard Peltier, an activist jailed for decades after a disputed conviction, faces his twilight years as a new generation fights for his release from prison before it's too late.
American Doctor - Q&A with Director Poh Si Teng
Oct 2 (7pm), Oct 3 (6pm), Oct 4 (3pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Bird in the Hand - Q&A with Writer/Director Melody C. Roscher
Oct 2 (7pm), Oct 4 (3pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A biracial bride-to-be seeking a connection with her charismatic hippie mother uses her wedding plans to manipulate everyone in her orbit.
Time and Water - Q&A with Director Sara Dosa, film subject Andri Snær Magnason
Oct 3 (1pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule.
East of Eden (episodes 1-3) - Q&A with Writer/EP Zoe Kazan
Oct 3 (3pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
In the farmlands of the Salinas Valley in California, successive generations of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, are destined to reenact the fateful story of Cain and Abel.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Q&A with Composer Jang Young Gyu
Oct 3 (4:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.
The Wailing - Intro with Composer Jang Young Gyu
Oct 3 (7:50pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter...
Concessions - Q&A with Writer/Director Mas Bouzidi, Actors Josh Hamilton, Rob Riordan, Jonathan Lorenzo Price, & Lana Rockwell
Oct 4 (7:30pm)
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.
Bird In Hand - Q&A with Writer/Director Melody C. Roscher, Actress Christine Lahti
Oct 5 (6:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A biracial bride-to-be seeking a connection with her charismatic hippie mother uses her wedding plans to manipulate everyone in her orbit.
Fjord - Q&A with Director Cristian Mungiu, Actor Sebastian Stan
Oct 6 (6:15pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
An immigrant Romanian family living in Norway is subject to an investigation and faces the scrutiny of the local judicial system.
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story - Q&A with Directors Eric Weinrib & Nate Pommer, Producer Beverly Chase, subject Eugene Hütz
Oct 7 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
An intimate, career-spanning portrait of Ukrainian immigrant Eugene Hütz, chronicling his childhood journey to the U.S., his rise to fame with immigrant punk band Gogol Bordello and his defiant return to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
A Brooklyn Dream - Q&A with Writer/Director Kaves
Oct 8 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
90-minute Brooklyn fever dream — part film, part immersive experience, part memory brought to life.
Un Film Dramatique - Q&A with Director Eric Baudelaire
Oct 8 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
A collective project with students at a junior high school in a Paris suburb, about friendship, emancipation, trust, and the act of filmmaking for a generation raised by selfies and YouTube.
Musk - Q&A with Director Alex Gibney, film participant Ashley St. Clair
Oct 8 (6pm, 6:30pm), Oct 10 (4:15pm, 5pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A thorough and unvarnished analysis of Elon Musk, a technology billionaire who serves as the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter.
Comparsa - Q&A with Directors Vickie Curtis & Doug Anderson, Writer/Producer/Protagonist Lesli Canela Pérez
Oct 9 (7pm), Oct 10 (7pm), Oct 11 (2:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
When 41 girls are killed in a Guatemalan 'Safe Home' and no one is held accountable, two young sisters lead a luminous rebellion. They take to the streets using art, joy and performance to unite their community against gender violence.
California Schemin' - Q&A with Director/Actor James McAvoy
Oct 10 (7pm)
AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)
Two Scottish lads from Dundee conned the music industry by pretending to be an established Californian rap duo, bagging a record deal and appearing on MTV until their scam unraveled.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Oct 11 (2:15pm)
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.
Edie Arnold Is A Loser - Q&A with Directors Kade Atwood & Megan Rico, Actor Adi Madden Cabrera
Oct 14 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Timid dork Edie makes waves when she starts a punk band with her fellow "turds," becoming an icon to the rest of the losers at her Catholic school while pissing off the hot girls, the nuns, and the horniest altar boy you've ever seen.
The Everything Pot - Q&A with Writer/Director Sherise Dorf
Oct 14 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
When married 50-something Rachel RSVPs and sends a gift way too quickly to an acquaintance's wedding, this seemingly insignificant faux pas snowballs into a series of misunderstandings that threaten to destroy two marriages at once.
La Bola Negra - Q&A with Directors Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
Oct 15 (7:55pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Explores what it means to be gay throughout different eras, focusing on "three existences" that are connected through themes of sexuality, desire, pain, and inheritance.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem - Q&A with Co-Directors David Greaves & Liani Greaves
Oct 15 (7pm), 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.