An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also stars Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny.

Set in a fake town, Hailey Gates’ feature debut 'Atropia,' premiering at Sundance, has fun, insightful ideas, though it ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror it's own take on "The Truman Show ...

It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in between.

Here are the films mentioned most often by buyers and sellers setting up shop at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The action begins Thursday. ATROPIA – Director: Hailey Gates. Cast: Alia Shawkat, ...

Reality blurs with performance and even love is just another scripted role in the big Sundance winner of 2025, 'Atropia.' ...

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set ...

Hailey Gates turned her Miu Miu "Women's Tales" short film into a Sundance feature, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... bearing a very familiar logo. Meanwhile, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker give brilliantly detached performances as sleazy military directors Pina and Hayden.

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat ... from a boardroom (Tim Heidecker, Chloë Sevigny). Tongue-in-cheek training ...

The action begins Thursday. ATROPIA – Director: Hailey Gates. Cast: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy. When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing ...