{"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. When Hanna vanishes, Inés serves as a translator in the search, uncovering hidden truths that test her loyalties and echo her country's dark history, in a mystery told from a child's perspective about complicity, memory, and a nation in transition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-meltdown-54064/", "official_url": "https://movingimage.org/event/the-meltdown/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30619fb9539e0c903e665782f939b051f551baee05f100d4d8f299d131f4b8b2-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Moving Image", "address": "35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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"}, {"title": "Stolen Children", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Explorers Club", "address": "East 70th Street 46, 10021 New York", "price": "$20 for Members, $35 for the General Public", "price_from": "35.50", "price_to": "35.50", "tickets_url": "https://store.explorers.org/products/screening-stolen-children", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/crime"], "description": "An in-person screening of the new film Stolen Children, followed by a question-and-answer session with its makers. 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": "After Winter Comes Spring", "start": "2026-11-07T15:40:00-05:00", "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=31295", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "A documentary shot in luminous black-and-white that travels across the German Democratic Republic shortly before its end. Director Helke Misselwitz sets out by railway from her childhood town at the age of 40 to discover how others have lived and how they want to live. Along the way she converses with women of all ages—teenage runaways, a divorcée balancing factory work and caring for her disabled daughter, a great-grandmother admitting a mistaken marriage—who speak plainly of regret, longing, and hope. The film forms a group portrait of female East Germany, questioning the outgoing leadership's claims of advancing equality between the genders while looking anxiously toward the new world being born.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/after-winter-comes-spring-56705/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005071-after-winter-comes-spring/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb64faf3ced4be3742a9607b68dbe30b77aba9aa9488f82fdfbaf2a8f224c458-2000.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": "La Merde! 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Bouvy's film follows an anthropomorphic excrement figure through everyday situations of discipline, rejection, and invisibility, combining grotesque humor and tenderness to examine shame as a social construct.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-merde-the-mole-52437/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783399/la-merde-the-mole-nbsp/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/671c6cfd380bb62ddc1ec1cc68e2448a288399bf17ce8b5919319c0f455bb9f7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Abrons Arts Center", "address": "Grand Street 466, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy is a work spanning performance, film installation, and an exhibition that reassembles the Greek myth of Antigone. It is directed by artist Natalia Lassalle-Morillo as part of her two-year La Residencia residency with Abrons and Pública Espacio Cultural in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and organized by residency curator Natalia Viera-Salgado. Through collaboration with an ensemble of nonprofessional actors from Puerto Rico and New York City's Puerto Rican diasporic community, it examines the collective consciousness shaped by decades of environmental, economic, political, and spiritual tragedies in the archipelago. Presented as a two-part film installation with an accompanying exhibition, Part I chronicles the New York-based cast's process while Part II follows a Puerto Rico-based ensemble developing their own interpretation of Antigone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/en-parabolaconversations-on-tragedy-50881/", "official_url": "https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/enparabola", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbfbcb849e0bdfab76227597846f16a1412ee5330514f195c32ae0d319f07087-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Morten", "start": "2026-11-07T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "MORTEN | NYBFF is a film screening with a talk and Q&A with director Ivan Pavljutškov, presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. It shows Ivan Pavljutskov's Morten, a coming-of-age film set between reality and the mystical in the Estonian countryside, part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival. Fifteen-year-old Morten lives with his uncle and a one-eyed cat in an abandoned forest village, hiding his life from classmates until two people show interest in him. Based on Reeli Reinaus' novel, the film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2026 and won three awards at Italy's Giffoni Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/morten-55697/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/morten-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/745f4b5788d819ad71fcd2ed939f8354305190a82e33e84de56d02240d096c65-2000.webp"}]}