Frequently Asked Questions

  • Cinema Week is a city-wide celebration of independent cinemas, featuring special screenings, events, and programs designed to bring audiences back to the movies and spotlight the cultural value of local theaters.

  • Cinema Week is an annual event, with the inaugural edition running from March 20-26, 2026.

  • See highlights below and complete programming and offers at each theater’s site.

    Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn

    Programming Highlights

    • Terror Tuesday: Phantasmatapes

    • Weird Wednesday: Jackass Number Two

    • Queer Film Theory 101: Daisies

    • Sad Girl Cinema Club: Melancholia

    Angelika Film Center & Cafe

    Perks

    • 50% off tickets (March 23–26) for Angelika Members
      Excludes special engagements/restricted films; studio restrictions may apply.

    • Free large popcorn when signing up for the Free Angelika Membership (March 20- 26)

    • 40% off merchandise (March 20–26) for Members

    Programming Highlights

    • Palestine ’36 + Q&A with Annemarie Jacir

    • Tow + Q&A with Director Stephanie Laing

    • Marc by Sofia – Opens

    • Two Women + Q&A with director Chloé Robichaud

    • Kangaroo Island + Q&A with director Chloé Robichaud

    • The Python Hunt + Q&A with Director Xander Robin

    • Six Billion Dollar Man + Q&A with Director Eugene Jarecki

    • Yes + Q&A with Nadav Lapid

    • The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist + giveaways

    • Fantasy Life + Q&A with Matthew Shear

    Anthology Film Archives

    Programming Highlights

    • “Metaphysics Of The Pratfall: Jerry Lewis And Jean-Luc Godard”

    • “Stephanie Barber: Jhana And The Rats Of James Olds, or 31 Days/31 Videos”

    • Essential Cinema: Harry Smith, Walter Ruttmann, Frank Stauffacher, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow

    • “Revelations Of The Middle Ages”

    Brooklyn Academy of Music – Cinématek

    Programming Highlights

    • “Of Father and Sons: The Bakri Family On Screen”

    • “Queering the Canon” (with NewFest)

    • “Women’s History Month Shorts Program” (with ReelSisters)

    Cinema 123 by Angelika

    Perks

    • 50% off tickets (March 23–26) for Angelika Members

    • Free large popcorn with new Free Angelika Membership (March 20–26)
      Exclusions may apply.

    Cinema Arts Centre

    Programming Highlights

    • Conbody vs Everybody + appearance by Debra Granik

    • Undocumented + panel discussion

    • Christian Petzold’s Transit

    • Cinema for Kids: Lady and the Tramp

    • Cult Café: Desperately Seeking Susan

    Cinema Village

    Perks

    • Complimentary popcorn for all screenings on March 20th

    Cobble Hill Cinemas

    Perks

    • 50% off admission 3/23 - 3/26

    DCTV's Firehouse Cinema

    Perks

    • 15% off DCTV memberships (new or renewed)

    • “Built to Move: NYC Subway on Film Series” – $5 Members / $10 General discounted tickets

    • “Data Docs: Open Data on Screen” – $8 discounted tickets

    Programming Highlights

    • Style Wars

    • Dark Days

    • Documentary gems from the underground by D. A. Pennebaker, Barbara Hammer, Third World Newsreel and more! 

    Film at Lincoln Center

    Perks

    • Discount concessions at Walter Reade Theater (March 20–26)

      • Small popcorn & drink: $5

      • Large popcorn & drink: $10

    Programming Highlights

    • Miroirs No. 3 + Q&As with Christian Petzold

    • Dry Leaf + Q&As with Alexandre & Giorgi Koberidze

    Film Forum

    Perks

    • Discount pricing for all programming (excluding special events) March 20-26

    • Two free extra months on all new memberships purchased during  Cinema Week

    Programming Highlights

    • “Young Film Forum Archive Dive” screening introduced by Joel Coen & Frances McDormand

    • Two Prosecutors premieres + Q&As with Sergei Loznitsa on March 20 & 21

    • Agnès Varda Retrospective + intros and other special events

    IFC Center

    Perks

    • $10 members / $15 general for all Catherine O'Hara films

    Programming Highlights

    • After Hours – 4K restoration  and more Catherine O’Hara career highlights:

      • Waiting For Guffman

      • A Mighty Wind

      • Best In Show

      • Beetlejuice

    • Miroirs No. 3 followed by Q&As with filmmaker Christian Petzold

    • Dead Lover followed by Q&As with filmmakers Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie, guest moderators Sarah Sherman, John Early, and more

    • Late-night screenings of Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls on 35mm

    • Cria Cuervos on 35mm and Amarcord, curated by director Julia Ducournau (Titane, Alpha)

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    Perks

    • 15% off new memberships

    • Half-priced wine & beer (March 19–22, 5:00–6:30 pm)

    Programming Highlights

    • Double Feature: There Will Be Blood (on 35mm) + No Country for Old Men

    • Fantastic Mr. Fox + guided drawing exercise

    • Jewish Film Festival Opening Night: My Underground Mother + Q&A & reception

    • The Immigrant Double Feature: James Gray's The Immigrant (2013) preceded by Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant (1917); part of monthly series Immigration Nation

    • Fantasy Life + Q&A with filmmaker Matthew Shear; part of Jewish Film Festival

    • Sapiro vs. Ford: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford + Q&A with director Gaylen Ross, producer Carol King, and actor Ben Shenkman; part of Jewish Film Festival

    Kew Gardens

    Perks

    • $5 admission 3/20 -3/26

    Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan – Carole Zabar Center for Film

    Programming Highlights

    • Ken Scott’s Once Upon My Mother

    Maysles Documentary Center

    Programming Highlights

    • Ashley Clark Presents The World of Black Film Documentaries including a book party, reception and screenings of Integration Report 1, The Black and the Green, and Fluid Frontiers on March 21

    • Special Screening of Will by Jessie Maple on March 24

    Metro Cinema

    Perks

    Free movie tickets for all shows for new bookings (food and beverage not included)

    Metrograph

    Programming Highlights

    • The Maiku Hama Trilogy: The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994), The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) and The Trap (1996) – 30th Anniversary Restorations

    • The Murray Center at 10– Secret Screening of a film from True/False 2026 and Panel on the Future of Documentary with filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, True/False Visiting Artistic Director Yance Ford, and others to be announced

    • Boris Barnet, A Soviet Poet Retrospective, including rare 35mm prints from the Filmarchiv Austria

    Millennium Film Workshop

    Perks

    We offer sliding scale tickets: From $10.00 to $15.00 (no one is turned away for lack of funding)

    Programming Highlights

    • "We Keep Us Safe: 5 Portraits 5 Activists” March 20 8pm

    • Film Diary NYC, FILM DIARY 4: GO TO THE MOUNTAINS AND PRAY March 22-26 at Millennium Film Workshop

    • The 4th Annual Film Diary NYC Film Festival, running from March 22 to March 26 at Millennium Film Workshop with screenings all day every day at 2pm, 4pm, 6pm and 8pm. Festival pass is $43 for all screenings and each screening is $11.50

    The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

    Programming Highlights

    • “MoMA Présents: Lumière, Le Cinéma!”

    • “A View from the Vaults: The 1980s”

    • “Marilyn Monroe: Celluloid Dream”

    Museum of the Moving Image

    Perks: 

    • 10% off new memberships

    Programming Highlights (35mm prints), all part of the film series "2001: The Year, Not the Movie"

    • The Royal Tenenbaums

    • In Praise of Love

    • Ghost World

    Nitehawk Cinemas

    Perks

    • With an eligible ID, receive a free ticket plus one companion ticket for all special events (Fri 3/20 - Thu 3/26) and any weekday first run movie (Mon 3/23 - Thu 3/26) available at the box office only

    • Bar happy hour & daily specials at Trees Lounge in Prospect Park and Lo-Res in Williamsburg

    • Show ticket stub anytime at Trees Lounge in Prospect Park and at Lo-Res in Williamsburg for happy hour drink pricing any time

    Programming Highlights

    • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – 35mm – Nitehawk Prospect Park 

    • Shattered Glass – 35mm (Femme Photographers series) – Nitehawk Williamsburg

    • Faust + live score (Live Sound Cinema) – Nitehawk Williamsburg 

    Paris Theater

    Programming Highlights

    • Sneak Preview - Episode One of Something Very Bad is Going to Happen + Q&A with creator Haley Z. Boston, cast members Camila Marrone & Adam DiMarco | Free with RSVP

    Special Screenings for AHNY Cinema Week - All Seats $10

    • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director’s Cut) – The Paris Theater's own 70mm print

    • Lawrence of Arabia – The Paris Theater's own 70mm print

    • Married to the Mob (co-presented by New York Film Critics Circle)– Q&A with Matthew Modine & special guests

    • The Cameraman – Opening Night, Academy Museum Branch Selects, introduced by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Directors Branch Governor Patricia Cardoso

    Quad Cinema

    Perks

    • $2 off wine all week

    • $5 small combo with the purchase of any ticket (Monday-Thursday)

    • BOGO in person sale only for any Matinee film before 5:45PM (Monday-Thursday)

    Programming Highlights

    • Spacewoman followed by filmmaker Q&A

    • “March Melodromatic Film Series”

    • March movie All About My Mother, playing March 24, 25, and 26, playing on film. Included in your ticket would be a small combo, which is a small popcorn and drink

    Roxy Cinema New York

    Programming Highlights

    • “Nico Films Series”

    • “Frederick Wiseman Film Series”

    • “Downtown NY Filmmakers Series”

    Shorts Movie Theater

    Special Event

    • Longer Days Ahead – Spring Equinox Party

      • Free event

      • Curated shorts program

      • Bar space & vendors

      • Flexible entry between films

    UnionDocs

    Programming Highlights

    • Todo Parecia Posible (Everything Seemed Possible) – NYC Premiere

    • Defectors – NYC Premiere

    United Palace

    Perks

    100 free tickets available for the programming highlight on a first-come-first-served basis (in-person only)

    Programming Highlights

    • Purple Rain with live pre-show entertainment and raffle of movie memorabilia. Sunday, March 23 at 3pm (doors at 2pm)

    Uptown Film Center

    Programming & Events

    • “Tales of the Immigrant City – In America” with Colum McCann (at The New York Historical)

    • Uptown Open House Hard Hat Tours – reservation required

    Village East by Angelika

    Perks

    • 50% off tickets (March 23–26) for Angelika Members

    • Free large popcorn with new Free Angelika Membership (March 20–26)

    • 40% off merchandise (March 20–26)

    Programming Highlights

    • Project Hail Mary – 70mm

    • Esta Isla + Q&A with Directors Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones

    Williamsburg Cinemas

    Perks

    • 50% off admission 3/23 - 3/26

  • TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLY IN-PERSON AND ON THE DAY OF YOUR PREFERRED SCREENING. NO ADVANCE PICKUP. ANYONE WITH AN ELIGIBLE ID CAN BRING A PLUS ONE.

    • New York City teachers with valid ID;

    • United States active-duty military personnel and veterans with valid ID or service record;

    • New York City families registered with Cool Culture and providing documentation demonstrating registration;

    • Individuals with disabilities presenting a reduced-fare OMNY card or Access-A-Ride ID;

    • SNAP/EBT cardholders presenting a valid SNAP/EBT card;

    • App-based delivery workers presenting active status in a delivery application;

    •  Union workers with valid ID;

    • Healthcare workers with valid ID;

    • Public high school students with a valid student ID; or

    • Students with a valid CUNY student ID.

  • More than 30 independent cinemas across NYC are participating. A complete list is available here.

  • There are no Cinema Week passes. Each cinema manages its own ticketing and entry, with discounts at select theaters during Cinema Week.

  • See program highlights on each cinema’s site.

  • Some events require advance registration or tickets. We recommend checking listings early on cinema’s website. AHNY & Cinema Week do not have passes or centralized ticketing options.

  • Select screenings and events are family-friendly, including Fantastic Mr. Fox at Jacob Burns Film Center, Lady and the Tramp at Cinema Arts Centre, Close Encounters of the Third Kind at Paris Theater, Beetlejuice at IFC Center, and more. Check each theater site for additional information and listings.

  • Participating cinemas offer varying accessibility features (captions, assistive listening, wheelchair access). Accessibility information can be found on each cinema’s website.

  • Events are first-come, first-served unless otherwise noted.

  • Here is a toolkit for community & influencers looking to tell their Cinema Week Story

    Here is the Press Release

  • #1. Attend screenings year-round.

    #2. Support AHNY to help us help cinemas with audience development, research and other strategic initiatives.