Browse film screenings, repertory cinema, independent films and special programs in NYC for Friday, October 23, 2026. Explore the listings and check official venue pages for times and booking details.
Aaron Sorkin’s companion to The Social Network follows Facebook engineer Frances Haugen as she enlists Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz to expose the company’s secrets.
The festival opens with eight independent shorts, filmmaker Q&A and an audience-voted award at Village East Cinema.
Los Javis trace three generations of men through Spanish history, bound by desire, pain and love.
Marnie Piper discovers a hidden town of witches and goblins in Disney Channel’s Halloween fantasy, screened outdoors by NYC Parks.
Jack Skellington takes Halloween Town into Christmas in Tim Burton’s stop-motion seasonal fable, screened outdoors at Owl’s Head Park.
On the last day of World War II, resistance fighter Maciek is ordered to assassinate a Communist official, then begins to question that mission after falling for a barmaid.
Julia Loktev follows independent Russian journalists forced into exile after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, tracing how they rebuild their lives and continue their work abroad.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim follow Elizabeth Holmes before prison, then widen into a three-year inquiry into truth and performance.
When 12-year-old Regan begins exhibiting frightening changes, her mother turns to two priests for help in William Friedkin’s horror classic.
In a distant future, racer JP competes in the galaxy’s most dangerous race alongside gifted mechanic Frisbee and fellow racer Sonoshee in Takeshi Koike’s hand-drawn sci-fi film.
A social worker visits a disturbed elderly woman and encounters a curse that lingers in the house. Takashi Shimizu’s Japanese horror film screens in the Waverly Midnights series.
Albert and David Maysles’ intimate documentary observes mother and daughter Big and Little Edie Beale in their decaying East Hampton mansion.
A documentary follows a Ukrainian cheerleading team of women over 50 as war tests their friendship and choices about home.
A scientific expedition in the Amazon encounters a prehistoric amphibious creature in this classic Universal monster film.