The State Theatre

Traverse City, Michigan

52 great movies in 52 weeks! A year-round festival of powerful, subversive, indie masterpieces made with the belief that cinema can save the world — and that one great movie can change your life.

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HAMNET

Friday, December 19th through Sunday, December 21st

Hamnet tells the story of William Shakespeare’s family, focusing on his wife, Agnes Hathaway, and the devastating loss of their 11 year old son, Hamnet to the bubonic plague in 1596.

1:00 pm

4:15 pm

7:30 pm

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE

Sunday, December 21st

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier’s efforts to track down a German spy.

Doors 9:00 am
Event 10:00 am

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WHITE CHRISTMAS

Monday, December 22nd

1pm

7pm

Wednesday, December 24th

10am

Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, two army buddies, become a top-notch musical comedy team after the war and are now the toast of Broadway. While on the road in Florida, the stars become involved with two aspiring singers, the sister act of Betty and Judy. Despite some romantic complications between the couples, everything ends on a happy note when Christmas Eve brings rave reviews for the show and much-needed snowfall!.

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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Monday, December 22nd

4pm

Wednesday, December 24th

1pm

George Bailey, a selfless man who sacrifices his dreams to help his community but faces financial ruin and despair on Christmas Eve, leading him to contemplate suicide, only to be shown by his guardian angel, Clarence, the profound impact his life has had and what the world would be like without him, ultimately revealing the value of an ordinary life filled with love and connection.

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ELF – QUOTE ALONG!

Monday, December 22nd

10am

Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.

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Tuesday, January 6th through Tuesday, March 24th

1pm and 7pm

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Tuesday, October 7 – Tuesday, December 23rd

How do you say I love you? In this charming, beautiful – and wordless! – German-Georgian film, love arrives by gondola. Set in the Caucasus mountains of Western Georgia, GONDOLA begins when “the new girl” arrives in town to work as a cable car operator. Another young woman operates the nearby gondola, and through a series of getting-to-know you stunts (costumes, water fights), the two fall in love. And though their chemistry attracts the ire of their older male boss, GONDOLA is a film that can be trusted to turn even the most tired conventions into fodder for whimsy.

Tuesday, December 23rd at 1pm and 7pm

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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.