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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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–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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WILD HORSE NINE

Friday, November 13th – Sunday, November 15th

Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh returns with his sharpest, most provocative comedy yet. Featuring an award-winning turn from John Malkovich alongside Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

Friday, November 13th – 7:00 pm

Saturday, November 14th – 1:00 pm, 4:00pm, 7:00 pm

Sunday, November 15th – 1:00 pm

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Tuesday, September 29th – Tuesday, December 15th

Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theatre. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving.

Tuesday, November 17th 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.