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Tuesday, January 13th through Tuesday, March 31st

1pm and 7pm

Tuesday, January 13th – Tuesday, March 31st

After an eight-year wait, Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is back to vivisect America’s wartime psyche with one of the most anticipated American films of 2025. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is an adrenaline-fueled race to & from the manmade brink of disaster. Set mainly in the White House Situation Room, the film poses a clear and terrifying question: what if the U.S. knew a nuclear missile was on its way but had no idea where it came from or how, for sure, to stop it. It unfolds RASHOMON-style from the perspective of a very caffeinated inner-circle helmed by Idris Elba, Tracy Letts, Rebecca Ferguson (SILO, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE), Jason Clarke (ZERO DARK THIRTY) & Greta Lee (PAST LIVES). It debuted at the Venice Film Festival this past fall, where it was nominated for the Golden Lion Award for Best Film, and was just Oscar-shortlisted for Best Original Score.

Tuesday, January 27th at 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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