{"title": "Vera", "start": "2026-10-31T15:50:00-04:00", "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=31222", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/biographical-drama"], "description": "Vera is a 1986 feature film directed by Sérgio Toledo. It is a pioneering work of transmasc cinema inspired by the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer. It stars Ana Beatriz Nogueira as Bauer, a trans man who struggles to overcome a painful early life via the embrace of art and the love of a sympathetic young librarian (Aida Leiner). The film's title is the protagonist's dead name.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/vera-56671/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005058-vera/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/2ea048893a8136176380e5272210aa0582f5d7af0e4d92b4beee3d04da53f31e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T15:50:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Cazuza: Good News", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "$26", "price_from": "26.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.fandango.com/cinema-village-aaefn/theater-page?format=all&date=2026-11-08", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "The documentary 'CAZUZA: GOOD NEWS' follows the final years of the Brazilian singer and composer Cazuza, known as the 'Rebel Poet', whose battle against HIV made him a pioneer for the cause and its victims. Using never-seen intimate footage, concert pieces, archival material and conversations with collaborators, lovers and family members, it explores his creative force and how his art kept him alive. Directors Roberto Moret and Nilo Romero made the film, which features Cazuza, Ney Matogrosso, Gilberto Gil, Frejat, Flavio Colker, Lucinha Araujo, Leo Jaime and George Israel.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/cazuza-good-news-51955/", "official_url": "https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/7th-new-york-brazilian-film-series.html", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/cfabd8089329a891e704f4e48b3f0750b9d2b13b06646e94dec943261feaf89b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Virgina", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "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=31177", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film by Srđan Karanović from 1991, running 102 minutes. When a fourth daughter is born to a family 'cursed' by superstition to bear no male heirs, the decision is made to raise the child with a boy's name—Stevan—as well as a man's rights and responsibilities, though as Stevan passes adolescence, first love and a brush with personal tragedy will spark rebellion in his breast. An acutely observed study of a 19th-century peasant culture steeped in misogyny, and a strikingly sensual story of self-discovery. The film has been newly restored in 2K from the negative, which the director had thought was lost in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/virgina-56651/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005047-virgina/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ab6052fb2c0b7cae35fdc234237b15582b55af90c10978cbe7f744b5cbbcc00e-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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/hermia-helena-56711/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005074-fireflies-press-presents-hermia-helena/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ca2e548938581264e760fd02495271109398b7f9e36c194401086967eb44a33a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ana and the Wolves", "start": "2026-11-02T21:50:00-05:00", "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=31315", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Carlos Saura's 1973 film is a savage allegorical send-up of the aging Franco dictatorship that ruled Spain from 1939 onwards. The actress playing the Ana of the title arrives to take up the position of governess at an estate in the sun-baked Castile countryside, there to contend with an aged and much-afflicted matriarch, her three variously insane sons, and the young offspring of the only married male heir, the voracious sex pest Juan (José Vivó). Censors balked at the first version of the script, allowing filming only after extensive rewrites, but Saura went ahead and shot the original script.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/ana-and-the-wolves-67263/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005064-ana-and-the-wolves/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/93ecf51b9a5cf8b2905dec2cc069c9ab29a522f955b55b067ff74a26f3d2995c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Valtinho Anastácio", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Zinc", "address": "West 3rd Street 82, 10012 New York", "price": "$35 at the door", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/brazilian"], "description": "An evening of live Brazilian music by percussionist Valtinho Anastácio at the Zinc. Anastácio, born in São Paulo, teaches himself Brazilian percussion from childhood, mastering congas, pandeiro, berimbau and more, with his voice bridging rhythm and melody. He performs and learns alongside major Brazilian artists such as Elis Regina, Djavan and Milton Nascimento, later works with Japanese musicians including a 1994 tour with Ryuichi Sakamoto, and after moving to New York City collaborates with artists such as Mongo Santamaría, Kenny Barron and Astrud Gilberto. He brings the sounds of Brazil to the Zinc every Sunday evening.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/valtinho-anastacio-57624/", "official_url": "https://www.zincbar.com/event/valtinho-anastacio-82/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/6115ea862db8899fe4f2a87b1c85e7f7c37a70fd3414f107b6c18415ed662952-2000.webp"}]}