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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

Escaping postwar Europe, a visionary architect comes to America to rebuild his life, his career, and his marriage. On his own in a strange new country, he settles in Pennsylvania, where a wealthy and prominent industrialist recognizes his talent.

Friday, February 7th – Sunday, February 9th
1pm and 6:30pm

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 2024 Oscar Nominated Animated, Live Action, and Documentary shorts for one weekend only!

Friday, February 14th – Sunday, February 16th

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

Tuesday, January 7 – Tuesday, March 25

Single moms can do anything. Take Niina, the heroine of this comedic Nordic political thriller who is busy working as an archivist at the local newspaper when a Soviet missile crashlands into their small Finnish town. Niina is played by Oona Airola, who won a Dragon Award at the Göteborg Film Festival for the role, and whose character is drawn by happenstance into the investigation that envelopes the town, and soon becomes a pivotal player. Set in 1984, the score, costumes and set design create a wonderfully immersive sort of “snow globe”/crucible in which Niina, as an overlooked woman of whom nothing is expected, becomes the heroine in her own story – and meanwhile just might save the world from nuclear disaster.

 

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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The State Theatre is operated by the Traverse City Film Festival, a licensed 501(c)3 organization.

STATE THEATRE

233 E. Front St.

Traverse City, MI 49684

(231) 600-7272