{"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", "tickets_url": "", "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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Staged Reading: THE BIRD IS DONE", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Theater for the New City", "address": "1st Avenue 155, 10003", "price": "Free, donations appreciated", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy-drama"], "description": "A staged reading of the play THE BIRD IS DONE at Theater for the New City. 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After their friendship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer, Minnie struggles to define her own identity and forms a complicated relationship with Callie's poised, attentive mother, pulling her further from her own chaotic home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mouse-53138/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/mouse/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07fc55b796a4c0a4eb7f0c5c5809b3826b7cf8da387f8898fe105aea714805e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "No Country For Mothers", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Riverhead Neighborhood House", "address": "Mosholu Avenue 5521, 10471", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/family", "film"], "description": "A screening of \"No Country for Mothers\" followed by a moderated discussion and reception. 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The film follows the bird and wildlife control specialists of Riga International Airport—nicknamed 'Scarecrows'—who guide viewers across four seasons in Latvia through a chronicle of the flow of work and nature. The airport is a paradoxical environment where different species cross paths, and fences built for humans cannot protect the lives of everyone and every kind.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/scarecrows-55694/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/scarecrows-nybff-2026-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/671e3602aeb3e0a2fd959297c275c740d0e2710a27b1641fc1088f58efe20676-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Papa Melissa", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.fandango.com/cinema-village-aaefn/theater-page?format=all&date=2026-10-23", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening at a Greenwich Village cinema. Director Sophia Stieglitz follows Melissa and Claudia, a Mexico City couple with five children, as the family navigates Melissa's gender identity journey through laughter, conflict, and unconditional love, challenging binary thinking. The film stars Servio Tulio Cruzmanjarrez, known as Madam Melissa Hakerman, alongside Kathleen Claudia Cruzmanjarrez and other family members.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/papa-melissa-66270/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ae513068de7f3abf1b4fe598e41aaf7b288b4ff7f24a4ebe927537fc73c61ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "OOA Outing: Fantasma at Primary Stages", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "59E59 Theaters", "address": "East 59th Street 59, 10022 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "76.00", "price_to": "131.00", "tickets_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScywkioAli6NbdOQz7AKfpIf865EZGBL3rsGVraYbb2lHHRTA/viewform", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "An outing by Hunter College's Office of the Arts to the world premiere of the play Fantasma, with a limited number of tickets for students. The play by Benjamin Benne, directed by Laurie Woolery, takes place on Christmas Eve, when three generations of women gather in Rosie's newly renovated kitchen to make chuchitos, a traditional Guatemalan recipe passed down by heart, touch, and intuition. As her granddaughters try to document the dish step-by-step, they find that what is being preserved is not just food, and that recording and remembering are entirely different things. Spanning nearly two decades, it is a bittersweet exploration of what we keep, what we lose, and the impossibility of ever capturing it exactly right.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ooa-outing-fantasma-at-primary-stages-66614/", "official_url": "https://www.59e59.org/shows/show-detail/fantasma/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6732210792c21fc81c856aae33b82c21f2a41f3f0e8fa7ad42684103d8f5453-600.webp"}, {"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour Presents: “Chameleon Street”", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Greene Space at WNYC/WQXR", "address": "Charlton Street 44", "price": "$25-40", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film “Chameleon Street” followed by a Q&A. The film won the Sundance Jury Prize over 35 years ago and later drew comparisons to Ralph Ellison's “Invisible Man” and was sampled by Black Star. New Yorker film critic Richard Brody joins the screening, with the Q&A hosted by New Yorker Radio Hour's Adam Howard. The film's writer-director-star is Wendell B. Harris, Jr., and the event is presented with the support of Arbelos Films.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-new-yorker-radio-hour-presents-chameleon-street-57487/", "official_url": "https://wnyc.org/events/the-new-yorker-radio-hour-presents-chameleon-street", "image": ""}]}