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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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PRESENTED BY ORYANA

BAD RIVER

Wednesday, November 12th

Wisconsin’s tribe’s ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. “Bad River” shows the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s long history of activism and resistance in the context of continuing legal battles with Enbridge Energy over its Line 5 oil pipeline. The Line 5 pipeline has been operating on 12 miles of the Bad River Band’s land with expired easements for more than a decade. The Band and the Canadian company have been locked in a legal battle over the pipeline since 2019.

ORYANA will be collecting non-perishable food items at the State Theatre during this event. If you have the means – please consider a donation for those in our community!

Doors: 6:00pm
Event: 7:00pm

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GOOD FORTUNE

Friday, November 14th – Sunday, November 16th

Keanu Reeves, Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogan, and more fill out the roster on his heavenly comedy! A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy capitalist.

1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:00 PM

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Sunday, November 16th

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Doors 9:00am
Event 10:00am

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2025 Fall Season

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Tuesday, October 7th through Tuesday, December 23rd

1pm and 7pm

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Tuesday, October 7 – Tuesday, December 23rd

We are thrilled to present this year’s Palme d’Or winner from acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, a brilliant filmmaker who continues to live & make movies in Iran despite being banned from doing so. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a powerhouse political thriller and revenge fantasy that’s also, as RogerEbert.com says, “actually surprisingly funny.” Set in contemporary Tehran, the film’s protagonist is an ex-political prisoner who kidnaps a man he suspects is his former prison interrogator – but to be sure, he sets out to confirm the man’s identity through friends and fellow ex-prisoners who have all processed their trauma uniquely. The film is inspired by Panahi’s own imprisonment and psychological torture at the hands of one particularly haunting interrogator, and the result is a nuanced character study that isn’t just a revenge fantasy but an indictment of the injustices that lead us to imagine these retributions in the first place.

Tuesday, November 11th 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.