The residents of ‘Atropia’ are all actors, paid to make that illusion as authentic as possible. None of them take it more ...

Reality blurs with performance and even love is just another scripted role in the big Sundance winner of 2025, 'Atropia.' ...

Director and writer, Hailey Gates, along with lead actors Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner of ‘Atropia,' drop in at our studio in Park City talk about the process adapting a short film, and turning it ...

Gates attempts to satirize the goings-on at this role-playing facility through the eyes of Fayruz (an excellent Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who rotates between roles like Iraqi street ...

By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia Shawkat as an Iraqi-American actress cast in the role of an insurgent at a military role-playing facility, won the top prize in the ...

Gladstone, who earned the Oscar nomination for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s historical drama, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” was joined in the discussion by actress and producer ...