Alia Shawkat, Hailey Gates and Callum Turner attend the “Atropia” premiere during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theater on Jan. 25, 2025, in Park City, Utah.

The launch reunites the designer with Guadagnino after serving as the costume designer for the filmmaker’s back-to-back films ...

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 ...

Director Hailey Gates makes her feature debut with "Atropia," a wild satire based on a very real, insane military phenomenon. 'Atropia’ is One of the Craziest True Stories You’ve Never Heard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...