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28 YEARS LATER 

Friday, July 18TH – Sunday, July 20TH
1 PM, 4 PM, & 7 PM
Twenty-eight years since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one member departs on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

TCFF SUNDAY BRUNCH CINEMA
PRESENTS

CLASSIC SILENT FILM SERIES

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Traverse City Film Festival with 100 year old classic silent films. 

Experience the dawn of cinema at the historic State Theatre (109 years young) on Sunday mornings! 

And YES! We will have coffee!

Tickets $7 
Doors open:  10:00am
Showtime: 11:00am

COMMUNITY NIGHT AT THE STATE
Oryana PRESENTS
The Spirit of the Sleeping Bear Dunes  

Wednesday, July 23RD
$10 tickets
$6 Students
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

2025 SUMMER SEASON 

PASSES ARE NOW ON SALE

Tuesday, July 15th through Tuesday, September 30th

1pm and 7pm

Tuesday, July 15 – Tuesday, September 30th

From the director of THE FULL MONTY comes a delightful period film that’s part DEAD POET’S SOCIETY and part MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS. Based on the 2015 memoir of the same name by Tom Michell, THE PENGUIN LESSONS is set in 1970s Argentina, where a British ex-pat (Oscar-nominee Steve Coogan) starts a new job at a boys’ boarding school. The job is a bore until Coogan’s character rescues a penguin from an oil spill — then can’t get rid of him! Once he brings his new pet to class, the kids blossom into rapt students and Coogan’s character undergoes a political awakening as the 1976 military coup explodes around them. THE PENGUIN LESSONS is a sweet, joyful film about how the parochialism of privilege falls apart when life asks us to care for – and about – others in unexpected ways.

Tuesday, July 22nd  at 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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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