Sundance Comedy ‘Atropia’ is One of the Craziest True Stories You’ve Never Heard Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut is a messy, sexy satire based on an insane (and authentic) military ...

T here’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’ feature debut has fun, insightful ideas, though it seldom expands on them. Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia ...

Name: Hailey Gates Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of "Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, ...

Atropia, Hailey Gates’ scattered debut feature, is based on a city invented by the American military to train cadets. That the United States erects role-playing facilities tasked with ...

Weaving absurdism and romance, “Atropia” interrogates the Western perspective of the Middle East. Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

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

“Uncut Gems” actress and filmmaker Hailey Gates had her plans for a documentary about military training villages upended by government officials. So she turned the idea into an unconventional ...

Panelists: Hailey Gates (writer/director), Alia Shawkat (actor), Callum Turner (actor). Key quotes: “Alia and I did Green Room ten years ago, and she sent me an email saying there’s this ...

Sundance 2025: Hailey Gates expands on her short to disappointing results, despite the best efforts of Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner 'Atropia' Review: Great Comedic Performers Are Stranded in a ...

Instead, Gates skillfully built a narrative around one of the craziest worlds we’ve never quite seen on screen. Tonally, it evokes “Argo,” a fetishistic love story set in the worst possible ...

Name: Hailey Gates Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of “Atropia,” starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker.The movie, which is produced by Luca ...