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 ...

News of the audience voted award comes after Friday’s full reveal of the Sundance Film Festival Awards for 2025, a ceremony that saw Hailey Gates’ Atropia starring Alia Shawcat and Callum Turner win ...

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 ...

Hailey Gates’ war satire “Atropia” got mixed reviews from critics, but premiere audiences were very enthusiastic (as was the U.S. dramatic jury who gave it the festival’s top prize).

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