{"title": "And Your Bird Can Sing preceded by August 8th", "start": "2026-11-14T15:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of two films by Sho Miyake: the short August 8th, followed by And Your Bird Can Sing. Adapted from Yasushi Sato's novel and set in the port city of Hakodate, And Your Bird Can Sing follows three young adults drifting through work, friendship, and desire as summer gives way to an uncertain future. With naturalistic performances and loose rhythms, Miyake finds profound emotional resonance in the ordinary. The short August 8th is a companion piece of sorts, starring Shizuka Ishibashi.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/and-your-bird-can-sing-preceded-by-august-8th-56724/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005084-and-your-bird-can-sing-preceded-by-august-8th/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/424580dde12530bc620159cb3a4eaef8e3ed09e25bdc42aedd27c7439615dc4d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T15:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Two Seasons, Two Strangers preceded by Nagahama", "start": "2026-11-07T14:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/comics", "film/drama"], "description": "A live-action feature in two parts, adapted from manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, paired with a short film. Directed by Sho Miyake, it follows a summertime meeting between Nagisa and Natsuo and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Ben-zō. Winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, with Yuumi Kawai, Mansaku Takada, Shim Eun-kyung and Shinichi Tsutsumi. A Q&A with Sho Miyake follows the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/two-seasons-two-strangers-preceded-by-nagahama-56704/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005070-two-seasons-two-strangers-preceded-by-nagahama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d3a286f85f01a34f1b5beb1e4aa7b60e01afa9ff0a3506ee54f3d0e18b8a2125-2000.webp"}, {"title": "All the Long Nights", "start": "2026-11-14T17:40:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "This is a screening of the drama 'All the Long Nights'. Director Sho Miyake adapted the film from Maiko Seo's novel of the same name, starring Hokuto Matsumura and Mone Kamishiraishi as two co-workers who each suffer from invisibly debilitating conditions—his blindsiding panic attacks, her wild PMS-related mood swings—and form a tentative bond based on mutual respect and care. Often affecting but never given to unearned sentiment, it is a deeply humane film about the everyday hurdles of muddling through life, buoyed by the chemistry of its leads.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/all-the-long-nights-56725/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005085-all-the-long-nights/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2cf125d351013394e38333397f8eb07d42ffc259f67f093462dfd3f35885ec46-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playback", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Playback is a screening of Sho Miyake's 2012 feature about Haji, an actor nearing his 40th birthday who is haunted by dreams of his own death. Answering an old friend's invitation to return to his hometown for a wedding, he dozes off on the way and wakes to find himself back in his youth, seemingly thrown into the past. The film is a bold, teasingly ambiguous portrait of middle-age melancholia, and its premiere at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival marked Miyake, then in his mid-twenties, as a filmmaker to watch. Ryusuke Hamaguchi has likened it to a modern-day reincarnation of John Cassavetes's Opening Night.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playback-56718/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005081-playback/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c7534146901ea13b15947aeddb14c78aa92dd8d96c571c1381a996faeed0ca5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Small, Slow But Steady", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/sports-drama"], "description": "A sports drama based on the true story of boxer Ogasawara Keiko. Director Sho Miyake casts Kishii Yukino as Keiko, deaf from birth, whose young professional career and the boxing gym that is her second home are threatened by the pandemic. The film follows her self-worth and resolve as both face possible ruin. A Q&A with Sho Miyake follows the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/small-slow-but-steady-56706/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005078-small-slow-but-steady/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d9f8013bf33f9cb5b6130f416451006e36c140fc9f80b24777bcfaf35d96d6a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sad Vacation", "start": "2026-11-08T21:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/crime-drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Sad Vacation\". Director Shinji Aoyama adapted it from his own novel as the third and final film of his \"Kitakyushu Saga\". It stars Tadanobu Asano as Kenji, a young man scarred by an unhappy childhood who, while drifting through odd jobs, recognizes his employer's wife as the mother who abandoned him and plots to infiltrate the household. A rich, moving human drama of families assigned and chosen, captured with striking, somber beauty by cinematographer Masaki Tamura.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sad-vacation-56715/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005077-sad-vacation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e05f12e0867c19ebcfa67a5a64d98e60c493973261f28f5d71f77374179f2a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Eiko Ishibashi", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": "212.18", "price_to": "212.18", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental", "film"], "description": "An evening at Pioneer Works pairing live music with film, titled GIFT. Multi-instrumentalist Eiko Ishibashi, known for film scores including Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Academy Award-winning 'Drive My Car', performs her score live. She plays alongside visuals from Ryusuke Hamaguchi. The event is part of the annual Durations Festival, presented with Public Records.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/eiko-ishibashi-71720/", "official_url": "https://pioneerworks.org/programs/eiko-ishibashi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4ea4af6c0668e812da151fbdaa1a35fd1160b142b903b81f82fed7e34ccbbff7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "zi", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The screening of the experimental drama \"zi\" is followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Kogonada and actors Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson, and Jin Ha, and producer Christopher Radcliff. Kogonada's fourth feature follows the title character, played by Michelle Mao, a concert violinist whose aimless peregrinations through the streets of Hong Kong are interrupted by visions of what may be either her past or future, a condition she attempts to explain to a new American acquaintance (Haley Lu Richardson) while a stranger (Jin Ha) observes the pair from a distance. A valentine to the textures and colors of the Fragrant Harbor as seen by night, featuring music by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, the formally audacious, shot-on-the-fly film is one of unusual delicacy and reserve, whose air of mystery abides long after the credits have rolled.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/zi-56697/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005068-zi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7952eef12c2146948739e6085dfb18e7afb925b580212e0172ae0a533e363e33-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Asako I & II", "start": "2026-11-07T20:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "Asako I & II is a 2019 film by director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. As a student in Osaka, Asako falls in love with a drifter named Baku, who one day vanishes from her life. Two years later in Tokyo she meets Ryohei, a businessman who is Baku's double in every respect but personality, and they begin building a life together—until circumstances force Asako to confront her lingering love affair with a half-ghost fantasy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asako-i-ii-56707/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999001925-asako-i-ii/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6243d03486732ecaa3c05b56fc9b8d182585f4d28c2e08a21de5bf2e44a5e19f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bird In Hand", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "Free admission, open to all NYU students, faculty, and staff; RSVP required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/comedy-drama", "society/racism"], "description": "A screening of the feature film BIRD IN HAND followed by a Q&A panel with its producers, moderated by film programmer Caryn Coleman, founder of The Future of Film is Female. The Fusion Film Festival invites audiences to the feature debut of NYU Tisch alum Melody C. Roscher, who wrote and directed it. The film follows newly engaged Bird Rowe as she returns to her rural hometown to plan her wedding with her narcissistic hippie mother, while secretly pursuing an agenda that leads her to her mother's new neighbors, a couple trying to 'rebrand' a plantation. Inspired by Roscher's biracial experience, it weaves themes of race, belonging, and family into a bitingly comic story starring Alisha Wainwright and Christine Lahti.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bird-in-hand-66664/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/film-tv/events/2026/fusion-film-festival-event--bird-in-hand-screening-and-q-a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17153334f1d4dfdeddbde93415ae39df594df0a5db8b93549175b4cdd8e475ce-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hermia & Helena", "start": "2026-11-08T13:50:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film Hermia & Helena, presented by Fireflies Press. Matías Piñeiro's film follows Camila, a young Argentine theater director who travels from Buenos Aires to New York for an artistic residency to make a new Spanish translation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, but finds her work does not make up for the friends and boyfriend she left behind. The first film Piñeiro made in his adoptive home of New York City, it screens alongside the stateside launch of his new artist's book from Fireflies Press, From where do you start when drawing a flower? A Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Dennis Lim follows the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hermia-helena-56711/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005074-fireflies-press-presents-hermia-helena/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca2e548938581264e760fd02495271109398b7f9e36c194401086967eb44a33a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sans Soleil", "start": "2026-11-12T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/essay-film"], "description": "Sans Soleil is a film directed by Chris Marker, shown at Metrograph. It is a voyage through memory, history, and video games, a free-flow of images shot largely in Japan, with detours to Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco. There is nothing quite like it in the history of cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sans-soleil-56662/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003788-sans-soleil/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4c15911b8c2aa0b8ba8d07094845605db4ffd7e11ff43231e337fd5d63b89b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The International Library: Mieko Kawakami on Sisters in Yellow with Hitomi Yoshio and John Freeman", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Center for Fiction Bookstore", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 15, 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "Mieko Kawakami appears at The Center for Fiction Bookstore to discuss her book 'Sisters in Yellow' with Hitomi Yoshio and John Freeman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-international-library-mieko-kawakami-on-sisters-in-yello-83451/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Blue Heron", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "\"Blue Heron\" is a feature film about eight-year-old Sasha, whose family relocates to a new home on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, a fresh start interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of her eldest brother Jeremy. At wit's end, the parents are presented with a shattering choice. Director Sophy Romvari's feature debut chronicles the haze of a languid summer and the moments that defined it. Eylul Guven, Amy Zimmer, Iringo Reti, Edik Beddoes and Adam Tompa appear in it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/blue-heron-53169/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/blue-heron/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2408389e749c74a9da2416c747029924f9137c50261e26ce8a2eecd9af61516-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "East 3rd Street 91", "price": "$20 Early Bird (first 100 tickets), $30 General Admission, plus NY sales tax (8.875%), valid for bot", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/death"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. No knowledge of Japanese is needed and all are welcome, whatever their beliefs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-the-art-of-japanese-life-and-death-55326/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/355990fa568d46df2b8aaebf4277de9b3ace42282b135df4b2bd6b5208a2fd53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Yi Yi", "start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/family-drama"], "description": "Edward Yang's 2000 film Yi Yi observes the interplay between three generations of an upper middle-class Taipei family. The last work of a master filmmaker who died far too young, it is gentle, restrained, and terribly humane. Comic in its dealings with the foibles of its excellent ensemble cast and the mores of the urban bourgeoisie, it is also possessed by an air of unmistakable melancholy and lingering regret at missed opportunities. An epic-length work without a hint of bombast, it works its way into the hidden spaces of everyday people's emotional lives, as rich and as sad as life itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/yi-yi-56686/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999001293-yi-yi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c664208e384d3583a3624d1b75e222c88b76ef4710406efec17fee3a13538792-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/queer"], "description": "An exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art pairing photographs with a new sculptural installation and performance. It centers on Jason Wee's commissioned work, created in response to Eikoh Hosoe's series Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), which staged images of novelist Yukio Mishima in Tokyo in 1961–62. Wee's installation focuses on the props from those photographs—a garden hose, a mallet, a candle, a painterly backdrop—mounted within a spiral of rope encoded with a lecture script audible on headphones. The show also traces Hosoe's photographs across three editions of the landmark 1963 photobook, curated by Yasufumi Nakamori.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/props-from-barakei-eikoh-hosoe-and-jason-wee-53559/", "official_url": "https://leslielohman.org/exhibitions/props-two-works-with-jason-wee-and-eikoh-hosoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6d92b08a35aae46099bbf25ea743fe65a9acd7d20edc6e9ac719fe7f5d0d2a5-2000.webp"}]}