WRAPPING UP SUMMER TCFF TUESDAYS:
Robert Redford is a tour de force as Bill McKay, the son of a former and powerful California governor (Melvyn Douglas). A political consultant (Peter Boyle) convinces a reluctant McKay to make use of his family’s name to run for the U.S. Senate. McKay has spent his young life fighting for liberal causes which guarantees he has little chance of winning. But with his good looks and oratory skills, he begins to catch on — and realizes that he might actually have a chance of winning… if he tones down his lefty rhetoric and tries to appeal more to the “middle.” He quickly learns that, in politics, selling one’s soul is not so hard after all.
Following the announcement from the stage on Awards Night that this powerful film had won the Top Documentary Prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, two of its co-directors, Basel Adra (a Palestinian from the Occupied West Bank ) and Yuval Abraham (an Israeli citizen) accepted the prestigious award – and Yuval gave a powerful speech that went viral around the world: “In two days, we will go back to a land where we are not equal. I am living under a civilian law, and Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights, and Basel has none. I am free to move where I want in this land. Basel is, like millions of Palestinians, locked in the Occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, it has to end.” By the next morning, Yuval was receiving death threats. Don’t miss your chance to see this incredible, incendiary brave work of art created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective before October 7th, documenting the demolition of Palestinian villages by Israeli soldiers — and the Palestinian activists and Israeli journalists who join together to try and stop the destruction.
A young widow takes over her late husband’s struggling wine business, determined to transform it into a champagne empire. Navigating societal expectations and business challenges, she pioneers new techniques and defies conventions, becoming a trailblazer in the male-dominated industry and changing the world of champagne forever.
Friday, September 20th at 1pm, 7pm
Saturday, September 21st at 1pm, 7pm
Sunday, September 22nd at 4pm
Thelma Post finds herself duped out of money and more when a scam caller pretends to be her grandson. Unwilling to sit back and let herself be a victim, she sets off into the city to find the perpetrator and take back what is hers.
Friday, September 20th at 4pm
Saturday, September 21st at 4pm
Sunday, September 22nd at 1pm, 7pm
TCFF TUESDAYS
52 Weeks! 52 Films!
The State and Bijou are a project of the Traverse City Film Festival
