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

PROJECT HAIL MARY

Friday, March 27th – Sunday, March 29th
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.
Friday, March 27th – 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 28th – 1:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:55 pm
Sunday, March 29th – 1:00 pm

2026 Winter Season

PASSES FOR OUR 10TH SEASON ARE NOW ON SALE

Tuesday, March 24th through Tuesday, May 19th

1pm and 7pm

Tuesday, March 24th – Tuesday, May 19th

A documentary that’s also an epic political thriller, COVER-UP is about the inspiring and legendary career of fearless and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. He made history when he broke the story of atrocities of the My Lai massacre, then again with his reporting on Watergate and decades later when he exposed the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. Masterfully woven, COVER-UP showcases an impressive array of archival footage, original b-roll and highlights of interviews with Hersh’s colleagues and with Hersh himself, now 88, that are both intimate and unflinching. Directed by Oscar-winner Laura Poitras (CITIZENFOUR), who spent nearly two decades courting Hersh, and Mark Obenhaus, COVER-UP was nominated for two Critics Choice Documentary Awards, and was also just named Best Documentary of 2025 by the National Board of Review.

Tuesday, March 31st 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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