T here’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on ...

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

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

"Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, premiered at Sundance 2025. The dark satire of military simulation camps made for comedic ...

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

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

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

Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics ...

“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 ...

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 ...