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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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–TCFF TUESDAYS SUMMER SEASON–

Tuesday, June 16th – Tuesday, September 1st

Show times at 1pm and 7pm

Join us for our 11th season

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NOW PLAYING:

TONY

Friday, August 28th – Sunday, August 30th

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

Friday, August 28th – 7:00 pm

Saturday, August 29th – 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm

Sunday, August 30th – 1:00 pm

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COMING SOON:

BROADWAY IN FULL COLOR!

Join us for Broadway in Full Color!

An All-Ages Broadway Drag Spectacular and Up North Pride Week Kickoff!

Thursday, September 17th, 2026

5pm – Doors Open

6pm – 8pm – Showtime

Above 18 – $25

Below 18 – $10 at the door

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PRIDE WEEK: COMEDY NIGHT

Thursday, September 24th, 2026

Laugh the night away at the SIXTH annual Up North Pride Comedy Night!
What started as a small event has grown to be a fan favorite for many. This year’s event will feature Full Tilt Comedy and other local and regional acts!

Tickets are available through the Up North Pride website at the link below.

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Tuesday, June 16th – Tuesday, September 1st

After generations of showcasing its antebellum homes and hoop-skirted docents, Natchez, Mississippi, is now reckoning with a romanticized past, an uncertain future and the debt it owes to the descendants of slavery. A cinematic portrait of a tourist town at a crossroads, NATCHEZ follows an array of historic homeowners, activists and tour guides as they tell their versions of the past, and clash over who gets to tell America’s story.

Tuesday, September 1st at 1pm and 7pm

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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.