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 ...

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 ...

Director Hailey Gates (debut) travels back to 2006 to explore Atropia through the eyes of aspiring actress Fayruz (Alia Shawkat, “The Final Girls”). Based on a real military simulation town, Medina ...

There is a moment in Atropia, Hailey Gates’ bold and deeply unsettling feature debut, where an actress — played with biting precision by Alia Shawkat — wanders into what appears to be an ...

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

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 dot the California/Nevada deserts, Atropia is a ...

The critically panned “Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury prize for its satiric take on the intersection of war and performance, while Brittan ...

Dylan O’Brien delivered a career-defining performance at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival earning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award.

Hailey Gates Cast: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy Deadline’s takeaway: Ripe with aughts nostalgia around the OG iPod, frosted lip gloss and Guy Fieri’s favorite ...

Courtesy of Prada If legendary artist Cindy Sherman, hip-house wunderkind Chanel Tres, Netflix teen idol Sadie Sink, and Hailey Gates, fresh off the triumph of her directorial debut Atropia at ...

As I was writing this report from Sundance 2025, the festival announced the winner of its Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition: Hailey Gates’s Atropia, a mordant satire set in one of ...

Atropia is the name of a fake Iraqi village that’s been ... Until the U.S. Government got in her way writer-director Hailey Gates had actually intended to make a full-length documentary about these ...