The State Theatre Traverse City, Michigan Check out the Spring season 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. Buy 2025 Spring Season Tickets now

Upcoming Films

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

It has been three years since the Clone Wars began. Suspicions are raised within the Jedi Council concerning Chancellor Palpatine, with whom Anakin has formed a bond. Asked to spy on the chancellor, and full of bitterness toward the Jedi Council, Anakin embraces the Dark Side.

Friday, May 23rd
4:15pm and 7:30pm
Saturday, May 24th to Monday, May 26th
1pm, 4:15pm, 7:30pm

TRAVERSE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS THE LIBRARIANS

Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy’s frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond.

Wednesday, May 28th

FREE TICKETS

Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm
Jane Austin Wrecked My Life
A lonely bookseller, immersed in fantasy, must pursue her writing aspirations to improve her love life. She’s compelled to turn her dreams into reality to stop sabotaging a romance.
Friday, May 30th- June 1st

1pm, 4pm, 7pm

INTERLOCHEN IN TOWN PRESENTS TICK TICK BOOM

TICK TICK BOOM is the story of an aspiring composer in New York City who is worried he made the wrong career choice, whilst navigating the pressures of love and friendship.

Wednesday, June 4TH
$10 tickets
$6 students
Interlochen students free
Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm
JUNE IS PRIDE MONTH
BIRDCAGE Viewing Party
Thursday, June 5th
$10 suggested donation
100% of ticket sales donated to THE TREVOR PROJECT
Doors 5:00pm
Event 6:00pm
JUNE IS PRIDE MONTH
PRIDE EXTRAVAGANZA
Thursday, June 12th
$25 Tickets
Doors 5:00pm
Event 6:00pm
18+ SHOW

Tuesday, April 15 – Tuesday, July 1st

What if the news told you that the nation’s major universities had been overrun by terrorist organizations? What if the two parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, spent an entire important election year telling you that our nation’s kids – our American college students – have become Hitler-loving anti-semites? Would you believe it? Or would you think: Maybe there is more to this story. THE ENCAMPMENTS is the inside story of the nationwide campus protests that rose up in the spring of 2024 and saw America’s youth organizing, across the country, to protest the genocide being committed in their name. Whatever you think you know about this moment and this movement, and whatever you’ve been told you know, the truth is worth seeing. THE ENCAMPMENTS is the real time story of what actually happened. Featuring ICE-detained student leader Mahmoud Khalil, the film – which broke box office records when it debuted last month – explains clearly the history that brought us to this point, and makes clear the future that these kids are going to inherit. THE ENCAMPMENTS isn’t a talking point you can debate. It’s a film about our future.
Tuesday, May 27th
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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