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The Traverse City Film Festival is committed to showing ‘Just Great Movies’ and helping to save one of America’s few indigenous art forms — the cinema. We are committed to showing great movies that both entertain and enlighten the audience. We need movies that seek to enrich the human spirit and the art of filmmaking, not the bottom line. Our goal is for people to leave the theater with the feeling that they just watched something special.

Upcoming Films

The Substance is a satirical body horror film directed by Coralie Fargeat. It stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. The movie follows a fading celebrity who uses a black market drug that temporarily creates a much younger version of herself, but with unexpected side effects.

Friday, February 21st
1pm and 7pm

Saturday, February 22nd
3:15pm and 9pm

Sunday, February 23rd
1pm and 7pm

Mismatched cousins David and Benji tour Poland to honour their grandmother. Their adventure becomes complicated as old tensions resurface while exploring their family history.

Friday, February 21st
4:30pm

Saturday, February 22nd
1pm and 6:45pm

Sunday, February 23rd
4:30pm

In the early 1800s, young Ellen pleads for a supernatural being to ease her loneliness. Her cries awaken a mysterious creature who makes her pledge herself to him eternally. In 1838, Ellen has married Thomas Hutter, and the couple live in the German town of Wisburg.

Friday, February 28th
1pm and 7:15pm

Saturday, March 1st
4pm

Sunday, March 2nd
1pm and 7:15pm

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as the hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protege: someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Friday, February 28th
415pm

Saturday, March 1st
1pm and 7:15pm

Sunday, March 2nd
4:15pm

TART TRAILS PRESENTS: THE WAY
$10 tickets    $6 students
Dr. Thomas Avery is an American ophthalmologist who goes to France following the death of his estranged adult son, Daniel, killed in the Pyrenees during a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), a Christian pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain.

Monday, March 3rd
Doors 6pm
Event 7pm

ORYANA PRESENTS: JULIE AND JULIA
$10 tickets      $6 students

Frustrated with a soul-killing job, New Yorker Julie Powell (Amy Adams) embarks on a daring project: she vows to prepare all 524 recipes in Julia Childs’ landmark cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” Intertwined with Julie’s story is the true tale of how Julia Child (Meryl Streep) herself conquered French cuisine with passion, fearlessness, and plenty of butter.

Monday, March 10th
Doors 6pm
Event 7pm

Tuesday, January 7 – Tuesday, March 25

On this Tuesday (February 25th) before the 97th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd, Mike will bring to the State Theatre a special Oscar-related surprise. Is it a film shockingly overlooked by Academy voters? Or is it the surprise underdog nominee we haven’t yet brought to Traverse City? Perhaps a panel of Oscar nominees Zooming in live to answer your questions? Even we don’t know! What we can promise you is a night infused with the spirit of cinema and love of the movies in anticipation of the biggest night in Hollywood.

Tuesday, February 25th
at 1pm & 7pm

Thank You to Our Sponsors

TERRY LYNN CARRITHERS
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GRANT MICHAEL CARRITHERS

Kids’ $1 Matinee!

The State Theatre offers family friendly movies every Saturday at 10 am.

All tickets are only $1

We also offer affordable snacks for both children and adults.

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The State Theatre is operated by the Traverse City Film Festival, a licensed 501(c)3 organization.

STATE THEATRE

233 E. Front St.

Traverse City, MI 49684

(231) 600-7272