{"title": "Blue Skies Over Chinatown: Rediscovering Chinese Cable Television", "start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Michelson Theater", "address": "721 Broadway, 6th floor", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/new-york"], "description": "A screening of selected digitized broadcasts from Chinese Cable Television, a community-run station in Manhattan's Chinatown that broadcast in Cantonese from 1976 to 1983. The footage, drawn from the Asian CineVision Records at NYU's Special Collections, includes coverage of the 1980 Silver Palace Restaurant strike, a boycott campaign against the film Charlie Chan: The Curse of Dragon Queen, and the 1982 garment workers' rally that mobilized over 20,000 Chinese immigrant women. The program was curated by Koel Chu and is co-sponsored by NYU Special Collections. After the screening, documentary filmmaker and former CCTV producer Nancy Tong will join a conversation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/blue-skies-over-chinatown-rediscovering-chinese-cable-televi-89230/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/fall-2026/blue-skies-over-chinatown", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ae84be37b58570e4a5f981d5890003f119f17c7aa5b6d6b1640b59934886502-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Michelson Theater", "address": "721 Broadway, 6th floor", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Raise the Red Lantern", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T12:00:00-05:00", "place": "Film Forum", "address": "West Houston Street 209", "price": "$12.00 Member / $18.00 General", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Film Forum screens Raise the Red Lantern in a screening co-presented by the CineCina Film Festival. CineCina is a New York-based nonprofit founded in 2018 by young film scholars and professionals from China and the US, dedicated to presenting Chinese-language cinema and promoting cultural exchange. The screening is introduced by Frank Yan, a cofounder of CineCina and a New York-based film programmer and journalist.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-the-red-lantern-93578/", "official_url": "https://filmforum.org/events/event/raise-the-red-lantern-november-7", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca0ad6ceea1c0d39e40634972384d4ac7a7fcf7162ba4f36fb829afcc72ea073-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tibet Film Festival New York 2026", "start": "2026-11-14T12:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "SVA Theater", "address": "West 23rd Street 333, 10011 New York", "price": "Ticket prices start at $20.00", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics", "film"], "description": "The Tibet Film Festival New York 2026 is a day of screenings of contemporary Tibetan cinema with filmmaker Q&As at SVA Theatre. It is hosted by the Tibet Film Festival, founded in Zurich in 2008 and inspired by imprisoned filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen. The program features exclusive feature screenings and compelling stories from Tibetan directors both inside Tibet and across the diaspora. At 12:00PM there is a screening of “100 SUNSET” with a Q&A with Kunsang Kyirong, and at 2:45PM a screening of “DHARAMSALA” with a Q&A with Tenzin Dasel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tibet-film-festival-new-york-2026-113365/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e83d3dd65952227730586186ec3b8917e8e63ac7f7a6f88cb16390aef553a38-1200.webp"}, {"title": "US Premieres of \"Encounters\" & \"Letters from Tibet\" + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-15T17:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Tibet House US", "address": "West 15th Street 22", "price": "$20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/politics"], "description": "The Tibet Film Festival presents the US premieres of the films \"Encounters\" and \"Letters from Tibet\" at Tibet House US. The evening includes a Q&A with the audience. The festival program brings Tibetan-themed cinema to New York viewers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/us-premieres-of-encounters-letters-from-tibet-qa-81572/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f74f462f4272508a603483b3be85360b31918391012405ed6eaaaa2bf8a93148-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Changing Lanes & Anti-car films", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "A screening of four documentaries about social movements that challenged the policing and commodification of urban mobility and embraced freedom of movement beyond the automobile. The films include Still We Ride, The Wreck of the New York Subway, Marathon de Triporteurs, and Changing Lanes, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers of Changing Lanes. It takes place at Interference Archive, 314 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/changing-lanes-anti-car-films-53178/", "official_url": "https://interferencearchive.org/event/changing-lanes-anti-car-films/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cd2fc69af89f4cca2af1ce1992fe8a690d61f3e1db633875c89563e4f1d7eb6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Radical Thread", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "price": "$12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/environmentalism"], "description": "A screening of the film A Radical Thread, followed by a conversation between filmmaker Jeanne C. Finley and filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The film tells of a back-to-the-land community on California's San Juan Ridge, founded in the late 1960s as an alternative to American consumer culture, which organized against clear-cutting, river damming, and open-pit gold mining. It tells this story through an 83-foot tapestry created over seventeen years by Marsha Stone and a collective of artists and community members, weaving in archival footage of poet Gary Snyder and reflections from Nisenan spokesperson Shelly Covert. Afterward, the two filmmakers discuss collaborative storytelling, art and environmental activism, and collective memory in the face of ecological change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-radical-thread-57168/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/a-radical-thread-2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f1334d0b6b4ddc016b9b2e1d13371190520e9ee84632cd22a7b59f10d99b8a1-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Story of the Big Boys", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:40:00-05:00", "place": "Nitehawk", "address": "Prospect Park West 188, 11215", "price": "USD 12–18", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/punk", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary \"You Can Color Outside the Lines: The Story of the Big Boys,\" followed by a Q&A session. The discussion features co-writer/editor Andrew Leeper, Charles Maggio of Gern Blandsten Records, pro skater Jim Murphy, and Tim Kerr of the Big Boys, moderated by author Tony Rettman. The event takes place at Nitehawk Cinema – Prospect Park in Brooklyn, which is generally an 18+ theater.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-story-of-the-big-boys-71632/", "official_url": "https://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/movies/you-can-color-outside-the-lines/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d226793928427e7c337132a38626b85b3be9ed43f426a1eca3f1d1b1721702bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Marching with the Kasama", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Swiss Institute", "address": "Saint Marks Place 38, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "SI presents a screening of the documentary Marching with the Kasama, which offers a glimpse into the Philippine revolutionary struggle. Through voices of peasants, workers and guerrilla fighters, the film portrays a movement fighting for land, liberation and people's power. The footage is shown not as a finished film but as an outline, part of an ongoing process in which the filmmakers apply the method of the mass line to filmmaking. It is part of a weekly series held during Rafał Skoczek's offsite exhibition Kino Drift, inspired by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's 1969 manifesto \"Towards a Third Cinema.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/marching-with-the-kasama-56278/", "official_url": "https://swissinstitute.net/programs/film-series-marching-with-the-kasama", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a05a0051a124932fc3a64a354a0395d9e010b68d5cfec38f66628e5ea7383e84-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Screening and Talk with Tith Kanitha", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A screening of the 2014 short film Boding followed by a talk with artist and filmmaker Tith Kanitha, who will also discuss her forthcoming film Crab and contemporary Cambodian cinema's engagement with community, city, and site in Phnom Penh. She works in sculpture, installation, performance, video, and works on paper, and plays a central role in Cambodian independent cinema with the collective Anti-Archive. She will be in conversation with Jeannine Tang, Assistant Professor at NYU Performance Studies. The event is co-sponsored by the Asian Film & Media Initiative and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is held in conjunction with Tith's fall 2026 Great Hall Exhibition at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/screening-and-talk-with-tith-kanitha-53246/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/fall-2026/screening-tith-kanitha", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c41df893ac1d67702b03395101f25cd6b614e4f02309bc525f3b979201d0b0d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM.org | BAM | Visit", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party is a two-day festival celebrating the artists, storytellers, and communities that have made Brooklyn one of the most culturally influential places in the world. It is presented by BAM together with filmmaker Spike Lee and Clara Wu Tsai, owner of the New York Liberty and the Brooklyn Nets, and created by filmmaker and producer Nicholas Ma with special guest curators. The inaugural festival includes screenings of repertory films, pop-up activations, a free street fair, and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playback-the-brooklyn-watch-party-51156/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/playback", "image": "https://noky.io/images/658b4fd5ef2bcc0fe539b7dab910188bb8677c1c8d9c1b35b4ef646fa16d9c1a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sundays on Fire: Secret Hong Kong 35mm Feature - 11/8/26 @ 12:00 pm", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:35:00-05:00", "place": "Nitehawk", "address": "Prospect Park West 188, 11215", "price": "USD 12–18", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Nitehawk Cinema – Prospect Park presents a secret Hong Kong feature as part of its Sundays on Fire series. The film's identity is not announced in advance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sundays-on-fire-secret-hong-kong-35mm-feature-11826-1200-pm-71636/", "official_url": "https://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/movies/sunday-on-fire-november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f9f16055da79caa5e10028103fcfb11bd338cc63744260e4faab7056b30a0d9c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Banned Together", "start": "2026-11-17T10:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "Banned Together follows three students and their adult allies as they launch a grassroots campaign to restore 97 books suddenly removed from their libraries. As their fight against the book bans gains national attention, they discover the power of student activism and collective action. The screening is part of a free film program for middle and high school classes in which students and teachers view award-winning documentaries exploring current social issues, followed by a discussion and a pizza lunch.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/banned-together-75701/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/11172026-movies-that-matter-banned-together/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/03cd724a57bc8bf1da5b544a24dd75d49cd794e23856374172b79ce3ec297861-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playback's Street Party", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM Rose Cinemas", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 30, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Playback's Street Party is a free all-day street party with music, Double Dutch, food and so much more, held outside BAM Rose Cinemas. It is part of Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party, a two-day curated film festival that the whole borough is invited to. Visitors can share their story on the stoop with stoop interviews and pictures all day. The party runs from 11 AM to 5 PM on Saturday, November 7th.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playbacks-street-party-108005/", "official_url": "https://www.nycforfree.co/events/playbacks-street-party", "image": ""}, {"title": "Film Series | Filmclub Populaire", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Swiss Institute", "address": "Saint Marks Place 38, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A film screening evening held as part of a weekly series running during Rafał Skoczek's offsite solo exhibition Kino Drift. The series draws on Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's 1969 manifesto 'Towards a Third Cinema,' which called for a democratic and popular cinema that is independently produced, politically militant, formally experimental, and focused on anti-colonial, anti-imperialist struggle and the lives of oppressed people. Each screening is treated as a structured event for watching and discussing films together, and this evening features works programmed by Filmclub Populaire, a film collective based in Zurich. RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/film-series-filmclub-populaire-56276/", "official_url": "https://swissinstitute.net/programs/film-series-filmclub-populaire", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a05a0051a124932fc3a64a354a0395d9e010b68d5cfec38f66628e5ea7383e84-1200.webp"}]}