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A WATER TRAIL : BIRTH OF A WATER PROTECTOR

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

After escaping Flint’s water crisis in search of peace, a mother, activist and poet relocates to Puerto Rico. But while back in Flint working on a project, Hurricane Maria hits the island. Separated from her children, she survives the storm and the silence that follows, emerging to form a women’s collective that brings clean water and hope back to Flint.

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

THE CHRISTOPHERS

Friday, April 24th – Sunday, April 26th
A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.
Friday, April 24th – 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 25th – 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm
Sunday, April 26th – 1:00 pm

Tuesday, March 24th – Tuesday, May 19th

In Park Chan-wook’s NO OTHER CHOICE, a laid-off man concocts a dark plan to eliminate his competition in this genius Korean thriller & elegiac – and darkly funny – indictment of late-stage capitalism. The film, an adaptation of a 1997 crime novel by Donald E. Westlake, stars Lee Byung-hun as a middle manager at a South Korean paper company that’s just been bought out by Americans. Humiliated and desperate, he feels he has “no other choice” but to resort to murder to literally take out his fellow job-seekers. By melding parody and tragedy, Chan-wook evokes a startling comic pathos that The New York Times says “can make you gasp in empathy amid the horror.” And whether we’re frogs slowly boiling in AI’s indifferent brew or longsuffering peons about to experience freedoms thanks to it, this is the perfect film for our times. NO OTHER CHOICE was just nominated for three Golden Globes, including Best Picture, and two Critics Choice Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. It’s also on the Oscars shortlist for Best International Feature.

Tuesday, April 28th 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.

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The State Theatre offers family friendly movies every Saturday at 10 am.

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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