There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake ...

Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The story centers around Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who works at the titular military ...

In short, names matter — which is why President Donald Trump is trying to undermine their importance. On the president’s ...

There is no need to imagine. It is hard to believe that the world of facsimiles that Hailey Gates builds is not a product of pure fiction. “Atropia” was originally proposed as a documentary to ...

The winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include Dylan O'Brien's 'Twinless,' the comedy 'Atropia' and the documentary ...

For her feature directorial debut, Hailey Gates takes a shot at showcasing a very real fake place, known in her film as “the box,” which sees the construction of an Iraqi and Afghan village ...

Hailey Gates’ ambitious debut feature Atropia is full of comic potential that is never quite realised. The mixture of war games satire, deadpan farce and sweet romance provides amusement along ...

EFM slate includes Shatara Michelle Ford's Panorma selection Dreams In Nightmares, Lili Horvát's My Notes On Mars.

“Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury prize for its darkly comedic take on the intersection of war and performance, while Brittany Shyne’s ...

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a distributor. By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia ...