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Upcoming Films

2025 SUMMER SEASON 

PASSES ARE NOW ON SALE

Tuesday, July 8th through Tuesday, September 23rd

1pm and 7pm

COMMUNITY NIGHT AT THE STATE
ORYANA and UP NORTH PRIDE PRESENTS
PARIS IS BURNING 

This 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston.  Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it

Wednesday, June 25TH
$10 tickets
$6 students
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

Back at the State Theatre for a third weekend!!

Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.

Friday, June 27th &
Sunday, June 29th
 
1 PM, 4 PM, 7 PM

COMMUNITY NIGHT AT THE STATE
INTERLOCHEN IN TOWN PRESENTS
DONT LOOK BACK 

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.

Wednesday, July 2ND
$10 tickets
$6 Students
Interlochen Students free
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

Tuesday, April 15 – Tuesday, July 1st

Set in the 1980s, this Palme d’Or-nominated Italian film from director Alice Rohrwacher is a revelatory cinematic achievement. In anyone else’s hands, a movie about a band of misfit gravediggers in search of love and treasure could end up as genre kibble; however, Alice Rohrwacher meets her characters where they are, and doesn’t deprive them of interiority or a shot at romance. When we meet our protagonist, Arthur, he’s a former archaeologist fresh from jail. He has nowhere to go except straight to his mother – an opera maestra played with fraught regality by screen legend Isabelli Rosselina. Back home, Arthur soon gets sucked back into the baser uses of his archaeological knowledge and joins a roving pack of “tombaroli” – the Italian word for tomb raiders. As their looting of millenia-old artifacts pays off, Arthur’s uncanny knack for dowsing rods drags him into mystical depths that seem to hold clues to lost love, though budding romance blooms around him. RogerEbert.com likens LA CHIMERA to an arthouse take on Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. Named one of the Top 5 International Films of 2023 by the National Board of Review.
Tuesday, June 24th
1pm and 7pm

Thank You to Our Sponsors

TERRY LYNN CARRITHERS
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GRANT MICHAEL CARRITHERS

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.

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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