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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.

Upcoming Films

Students Demand Action Presents:

The Hate U Give- Exploring the Intersection of Youth, Gun Violence, and Justice

Tickets are $10.  Students are FREE

Thursday, February 13th
Doors at 5:30pm
Event at 6:30pm

Join us for the 2025 Oscar Nominated Animated, Live Action, and Documentary shorts for one weekend only!
Friday, February 14th, Saturday, February 15th and Sunday, February 16th

ANIMATED SHORTS                 DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Friday at 1pm, 9:15pm                Friday at 5:45pm
Saturday at 7pm                           Saturday at 1pm and 9:15pm
Sunday at 7pm                              Sunday at 3:30pm

LIVE ACTION SHORTS
Friday at 3:15pm
Saturday at 4:30pm
Sunday at 1pm

The Substance is a satirical body horror film directed by Coralie Fargeat. It stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. The movie follows a fading celebrity who uses a black market drug that temporarily creates a much younger version of herself, but with unexpected side effects.

Friday, February 21st – Sunday, February 23rd

Mismatched cousins David and Benji tour Poland to honour their grandmother. Their adventure becomes complicated as old tensions resurface while exploring their family history.

Friday, February 21st – Sunday, February 23rd

In the early 1800s, young Ellen pleads for a supernatural being to ease her loneliness. Her cries awaken a mysterious creature who makes her pledge herself to him eternally. In 1838, Ellen has married Thomas Hutter, and the couple live in the German town of Wisburg.

Friday, February 28th – Sunday, March 2nd
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as the hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protege: someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Friday, February 28th – Sunday, March 2nd
TART TRAILS PRESENTS: THE WAY
Dr. Thomas Avery is an American ophthalmologist who goes to France following the death of his estranged adult son, Daniel, killed in the Pyrenees during a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), a Christian pilgrimage route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain.

Monday, March 3rd
Doors 6pm
Event 7pm

ORYANA PRESENTS: JULIE AND JULIA
Frustrated with a soul-killing job, New Yorker Julie Powell (Amy Adams) embarks on a daring project: she vows to prepare all 524 recipes in Julia Childs’ landmark cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” Intertwined with Julie’s story is the true tale of how Julia Child (Meryl Streep) herself conquered French cuisine with passion, fearlessness, and plenty of butter.


Monday, March 10th
Doors 6pm
Event 7pm

Tuesday, January 7 – Tuesday, March 25

The most important resource on Earth is not oil or natural gas or gold and diamonds – it’s our food and our water. THE GRAB is a political thriller that follows journalists at The Center for Investigative Reporting as they pull back the curtain on the powerful forces operating in the shadows – the ultra-rich, foreign governments, and our own corporations – and this growing threat. With climate change dramatically altering our daily lives and water shortages and spiking food prices sparking chaos and violence around the world, THE GRAB travels from Arizona to Zambia, exposing the people who are racing to buy up our future.
Tuesday, February 4th
at 1pm & 7pm

Thank You to Our Sponsors

TERRY LYNN CARRITHERS
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
GRANT MICHAEL CARRITHERS

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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