Gates and Luca Guadagnino had been friends for a few years before she arrived on the Boston set of “Challengers” for a bit part. He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only ...

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’ 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 ...

Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of "Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim ...

“Uncut Gems” actress and filmmaker Hailey Gates had her plans for a documentary ... into an unconventional love story instead, and “Atropia” was born. The film, which premiered on Saturday ...

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.

More a forced, one-note farce than the sharp satire it’s trying to be, “Atropia” is almost impressive ... scenarios that writer/director Hailey Gates takes us through. Even when it ...

An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature ... Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay ...

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 ...

Welcome to Atropia: an invented city constructed to exercise Western imaginations and soldiers.This mirage of a place is a bizarre, liminal construction of writer-director Hailey Gates ...

Notable past credits: As an actor, Gates has appeared in films like “Challengers” — which is how she connected with Guadagnino — and “Uncut Gems.” She hosted the Viceland series ...

This is Atropia, the fictional town named after a very real military training camp in the Nevada desert. It’s the subject of Hailey Gates’ new film of the same name, playing in competition at ...