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.

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a ...

Actress and journalist Hailey Gates makes her feature debut as a writer-director with the satirical Atropia, an unfunny ...

“Atropia” is a masterfully dark satire because of how loud its subtleties are whilst remaining laugh-out-loud hilarious. With ...

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 towns ...

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

The war satire "Atropia" about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film ...

Atropia (2025) is a different kind of military movie using comedy and irony to highlight the evils of war and the ...

Brought in for his lived knowledge of what the troops will face over there, Fayruz looks at Abu and immediately senses him as a threat to her theatric domination—it’s a real “Sam & Diane” hate-to-love ...

Weaving absurdism and romance, “Atropia” interrogates the Western perspective of the Middle East. Directed by Hailey Gates, ...