{"title": "Papa Melissa", "start": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Meltdown", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Moving Image", "address": "35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria", "price": "$17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / $7 MoMI members", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://altru1282.sky.blackbaud.com/1282/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=07b144cd-2c9f-42a7-a137-a39de3debb58", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/mystery"], "description": "The Meltdown is a Chilean drama by director Manuela Martelli, who also directed Chile '76. Set in 1992 during Chile's post-Pinochet 'economic miracle,' it follows nine-year-old Inés at an Andean ski resort, where she befriends Hanna, a rebellious German teenage athlete. 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The film, directed by Explorers Club Fellow Martyna Wojciechowska and Jowita Baraniecka, follows a journalistic investigation into the disappearances of numerous children in Georgian hospitals throughout the 1990s. Wojciechowska, an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and explorer, will be present. The visit and presentation are organized and sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski, the first man to paddle the entire length of the Amazon River, with a beer and wine reception before the film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stolen-children-56563/", "official_url": "https://www.explorers.org/calendar-of-events/screening-stolen-children/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ce4f90e4739b889e2d905cf32ef303abf7a4c366f46accb96152ac0d33d01a9-600.webp"}, {"title": "My Family and Other Clowns", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:50:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening with a talk and Q&A, part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. 'My Family and Other Clowns' (Minu pere ja muud klounid), directed by Heilika Pikkov and Liina Särkinen, follows Haide and Toomas, a married couple with three children in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in a Tallinn suburb who are famous clowns known as Piip and Tuut, with one of their kids autistic. After 25 years entertaining thousands of children while their own kids grow up on their own, they reach a breaking point and must decide whether to keep juggling family and stage lives or give up their dream to save their family. Co-Director Liina Särkinen will be present for a film talk and Q&A; the film won the Special Jury Prize at the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition, Tallinn Black Nights, and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia's Annual Prize for Best Documentary.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/my-family-and-other-clowns-55700/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/my-family-clowns-nybff-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5d54fb04756c9c5b9e0ccd3bc1245ca2ad343993c6d25f90d27b99a5fe1efb9-2000.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": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31302", "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": "Filipiñana", "start": "2026-11-07T11:15:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:05:00-05:00", "place": "Nitehawk Cinema", "address": "Metropolitan Avenue 136, 11249 Brooklyn", "price": "USD 9–15", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A cinema screening of the film \"Filipiñana\" at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg. The showing is followed by a Q&A with the film's director, Rafael Manuel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/filipinana-66952/", "official_url": "https://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/movies/filipinana/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/368c4ff0646506ce435f1242807070dcdb404d3a6909396b5325064c4a992565-1200.webp"}]}