The State Theatre Traverse City, Michigan Check out the Fall 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 Fall Season Tickets now

HAMNET

Thursday, December 25th 

7:00pm

Friday, December 26th  through  Sunday, December 28th

1:00 pm
4:15 pm
7:30 pm
Hamnet tells the story of William Shakespeare’s family, focusing on his wife, Agnes Hathaway, and the devastating loss of their 11 year old son, Hamnet to the bubonic plague in 1596.

2025 Holiday Movies

$5 tickets

WHITE CHRISTMAS

Monday, December 22nd

1pm

7pm

Wednesday, December 24th

10am

Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, two army buddies, become a top-notch musical comedy team after the war and are now the toast of Broadway. While on the road in Florida, the stars become involved with two aspiring singers, the sister act of Betty and Judy. Despite some romantic complications between the couples, everything ends on a happy note when Christmas Eve brings rave reviews for the show and much-needed snowfall!.

2025 Holiday Movies

$5 tickets

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Monday, December 22nd

4pm

Wednesday, December 24th

1pm

George Bailey, a selfless man who sacrifices his dreams to help his community but faces financial ruin and despair on Christmas Eve, leading him to contemplate suicide, only to be shown by his guardian angel, Clarence, the profound impact his life has had and what the world would be like without him, ultimately revealing the value of an ordinary life filled with love and connection. 

2025 Holiday Movies
$5 tickets

THE GRINCH (2018)

TUESDAY, December 23rd

10am

The Grinch and his loyal dog, Max, live a solitary existence inside a cave on Mount Crumpet. His main source of aggravation comes during Christmastime when his neighbors in Whoville celebrate the holidays with a bang. When the Whos decide to make Christmas bigger and brighter, the disgruntled Grinch realizes there is one way to gain peace and quiet. With help from Max, the green grump hatches a scheme to pose as Santa Claus, steal Christmas and silence the Whos’ holiday cheer once and for all.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29th
10:00 AM

Hiccup is a Norse teenager from the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. His progressive views and weird sense of humor make him a misfit, despite the fact that his father is chief of the clan. Tossed into dragon-fighting school, he endeavors to prove himself as a true Viking, but when he befriends an injured dragon he names Toothless, he has the chance to plot a new course for his people’s future.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30th
10:00 AM

Evolving from single-celled yellow organisms at the dawn of time, Minions live to serve, but find themselves working for a continual series of unsuccessful masters, from T. Rex to Napoleon. Without a master to grovel for, the Minions fall into a deep depression. But one minion, Kevin, has a plan; accompanied by his pals Stuart and Bob, Kevin sets forth to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow. Their search leads them to Scarlet Overkill, the world’s first-ever super-villainess.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31st
10:00 AM

Dapper Koala Buster Moon presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist, and a bit of a scoundrel, he loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he takes one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition. Five contestants emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla and a punk-rock porcupine.

NEW YEARS EVE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31st
10:00PM

A party of eight Norwegian medical students travel to a remote Arctic mountain for an Easter weekend filled with skiing and relaxation. After one of their group disappears while on a solo cross-country hike, a mysterious local resident (Bjørn Sundquist) tells the remaining visitors that, in the waning days of World War II, a battalion of Nazi soldiers disappeared into the nearby woods after the residents turned on them, and that their zombified corpses remain on the prowl in the area.

2026 Winter Season

PASSES FOR OUR 10TH SEASON ARE NOW ON SALE

Tuesday, January 13th through Tuesday, March 31st

1pm and 7pm

Tuesday, October 7 – Tuesday, December 23rd

How do you say I love you? In this charming, beautiful – and wordless! – German-Georgian film, love arrives by gondola. Set in the Caucasus mountains of Western Georgia, GONDOLA begins when “the new girl” arrives in town to work as a cable car operator. Another young woman operates the nearby gondola, and through a series of getting-to-know you stunts (costumes, water fights), the two fall in love. And though their chemistry attracts the ire of their older male boss, GONDOLA is a film that can be trusted to turn even the most tired conventions into fodder for whimsy.

Tuesday, December 23rd 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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