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Upcoming Films

BOB TREVINO LIKES IT is inspired by the true friendship that writer and director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger when looking for her father online.  Staring John Leguizamo, Barbie Ferreira, and French Stewart.

Friday, April 18 to Sunday, April 20
1 hr 41
1pm, 4pm, 7pm

TART TRAILS PRESENTS: A WALK IN THE WOODS

After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte).

Wednesday, April 16th
$10 Tickets
$6 Students
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

ORYANA PRESENTS: TROUBLED WATER

Two friends embark on a journey to discover the Great Lakes and learn about the threats to the water and how they are being protected.

Wednesday, April 23rd
$10 Tickets
$6 Students
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

VETERANS FOR PEACE PRESENTS: COMING HOME and NANEEK

Join us for a Double Feature:
NANEEK is a documentary about Vietnam veteran Tim Keenan returning to Vietnam 40 years after fighting in the war.
COMING HOME: The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) must decide between the new love of her life and her returning husband.

Wednesday, April 30th
$10 Tickets
$6 Students
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

Tuesday, April 15 – Tuesday, July 1st


What is art for? What does an artist owe the world, and what does she owe herself? These are the questions Greek-American opera diva Maria Callas asks herself at the end of her life in this stunning, visually resplendent biographical drama. Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie’s performance as Callas is a tour de force that earned her Best Actress nominations from this year’s Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. Set in the week leading up to the superstar’s 1977 death in her Paris apartment, MARIA envisions Callas’ final performance – both literally, as she summons her failing voice, and imaginally, as she revisits the emotional crucibles – from her childhood trauma to her affair with Aristotle Onassis – that drove her. MARIA is a blockbuster movie about an unstoppable woman with otherworldly talent; it is also a feast for the senses – it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and a Critics Choice award for Best Costume Design.
Tuesday, April 22nd
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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