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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“This movie is so strange,” “Atropia’s” writer-director, Hailey Gates, said as she accepted her award at The Ray theater in Park City on Friday. “I did not think that anybody would be ...

“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 ...

War, as it turns out, is just one big production. That’s the unsexy truth at the heart of Hailey Gates’ bizarre and bloody Bush-era satire. Based on the real-life military training camps that ...