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

ROOFMAN

Friday, October 17 – Sunday, October 19th
A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname ‘Roofman’. After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys “R” Us for six months, surviving undetected while planning his next move. But when he falls for a divorced mom drawn to his undeniable charm, his double life begins to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in.
1:00 PM, 4:15 PM, 7:30 PM

TCFF SUNDAY BRUNCH CINEMA PRESENTS

CATCH-22

Sunday, October 19th
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Doors 9:00am
Event 10:00am

COMMUNITY NIGHT

PRESENTED BY ORYANA CO-OP

DOLORES

Wednesday, October 22nd

Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country’s first farm worker’s union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.

Doors: 6:00pm
Event: 7:00pm

2025 Fall Season

PASSES ARE NOW ON SALE

Tuesday, October 7th through Tuesday, December 23rd

1pm and 7pm

TCFF SUNDAY BRUNCH CINEMA PRESENTS

WWII FILM SERIES

Explore the action, drama, and horrors of WWII through these award winning films in the historic State Theatre on Sunday mornings!

Coffee and pastries available!

Series pass is only $70. 

Purchase your pass before November 9th to reap the savings!

Tuesday, October 7 – Tuesday, December 23rd

What happens when a locksmith opens the wrong door? This French-Belgian noir thriller seeks to find out – as it introduces you to Mady, a young Black college student in Brussels who moonlights as a locksmith during a summer gripped by protests against police brutality. He’s working from his van one night when he decides to help a young white woman who claims her cash is locked inside her apartment; however, the real tenant – a neo-Nazi – emerges thinking he’s being robbed. What happens next drags Mady into a criminal underbelly of Belgian gangsters who force Mady to look within himself to discover a Marvel-level flair for keeping trouble he didn’t ask for at bay – the whole time dodging police he can’t trust. NIGHT CALL is a thrilling, breathless journey through the grittier side of a European tourist’s post card.

Tuesday, October 21st 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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