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–TCFF TUESDAYS FALL SEASON–

Tuesday, September 29th – Tuesday, December 15th

Showtimes at 1pm and 7pm

Join us for our 12th season!

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NOW PLAYING:

NAZA

Friday, October 30th – Sunday, November 1st

Direct from its award-winning world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, we are proud to bring NAZA to our screen.

Filmed under the cover of night from Tel Aviv rooftops, NAZA is a shattering, deeply urgent piece of investigative cinema that confronts the intersection of technological warfare and human tragedy. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, this provocative documentary from the Oscar-winning team behind No Other Land explores the inner mechanics of modern warfare.

Through 24 riveting, anonymous testimonies from Israeli military and intelligence whistleblowers, directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor expose the amoral bureaucracy of “acceptable” loss and the automated AI targeting systems determining life and death in Gaza. Immersive, cool-eyed, and meticulously reported, NAZA breaks the silence of institutional denial to provide a vital, historical account of a conflict that continues to shake our world.

Friday, October 30th – 7:00 pm

Saturday, October 31st – 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm

Sunday, November 1st – 1:00 pm

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Tuesday, September 29th – Tuesday, December 15th

John Wilson follows up his acclaimed HBO series by looking to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world’s most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to tell this seemingly drab story and increase his movie’s appeal.

Tuesday, November 3rd at 1pm and 7pm

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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.