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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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THE POPCORN LIST PRESENTS

IF THAT MOCKINGBIRD DON’T SING

Thursday, September 18th

After being brutally dumped, 17-year-old Sydnie discovers she is pregnant. Seeing this as an opportunity to get her ex back and give her life direction, she decides to keep the baby. She soon realizes that this won’t be the quick fix she had hoped for and finds herself caught in a complicated love triangle and totally lost.

Doors 3:00pm
Event 4:00pm

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THE POPCORN LIST PRESENTS

NEW WAVE

Thursday, September 18th

An endearingly nostalgic exploration of the defiant Vietnamese new wave music scene, as well as a vulnerable and personal look at the filmmaker and her community’s revisiting of their unexamined past.

**We’re working with THE GOOD BOWL on a special DINNER & A MOVIE deal for this screening!**

Get a 3-course Vietnamese DINNER — & a ticket to NEW WAVE, gratuity included — for $65 total!

Come early for themed cocktails starting at 5:00pm (cash bar), then sit down for a three-course dinner with Chef Tony at 5:30pm.

To purchase this special package & receive your ticket code, visit: https://www.goodbowleatery.com

Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

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DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE

Friday, September 19th – Sunday, September 21st

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

1:00 PM, 4:15 PM, 7:30 PM

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TCFF SUNDAY BRUNCH CINEMA PRESENTS

WWII FILM SERIES

CASABLANCA

Sunday, September 21st

Tickets $7

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Doors open: 9:00 am
Showtime: 10:00 am

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COMMUNITY NIGHT AT THE STATE
ORYANA AND BDAI PRESENTS

HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY

Wednesday, September 24th

$10 tickets

$6 Students

In Houston, Texas, a local radio airs a weekly show catered to prisoners and the families they’ve left behind, unveiling the tentacular reach of the United States’ criminal justice system.

Doors 6:00pm
Event 7:00pm

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TCFF SUNDAY BRUNCH CINEMA PRESENTS

WWII FILM SERIES

Explore the action, drama, and horrors of WWII through these award winning films in the historic State Theatre on Sunday mornings!

Coffee and pastries available!

Series pass is only $70.

Purchase your pass before November 9th to reap the savings!

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2025 SUMMER SEASON

PASSES ARE NOW ON SALE

Tuesday, July 15th through Tuesday, September 30th

1pm and 7pm

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Tuesday, July 15 – Tuesday, September 30th

This inspiring documentary fresh from this year’s Sundance Film Festival introduces you to our nation’s best orators – who happen to be high school students. SPEAK is shot and produced like a classic sports drama (Variety likens it to a doc version of BEND IT LIKE BEKHAM or A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN), as seen through the eyes of five teenaged American finalists in the National Speech and Debate Association Grand National Tournament. The film is carried by its charismatic and layered young competitors, and doesn’t shy away from documenting their devastations along with their wins. SPEAK will make you dare to hope for the future our children are barrelling towards and creating, and reveals the grit, passion and endurance it takes to not just talk about the world you envision – but to SPEAK it into being.

Tuesday, September 23rd 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.