“Atropia” is a masterfully dark satire because of how loud its subtleties are whilst remaining laugh-out-loud hilarious. With ...

"Atropia," a satire of the Iraq War and military contractors' efforts to prepare soldiers to fight overseas, was one of the ...

Atropia,' 'Seeds,' 'Twinless,' 'East of Wall,' and 'André is an Idiot' are the big awards winners at the 2025 Sundance Film ...

The war satire “Atropia” about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film ...

Hailey Gates expands on her short to disappointing results, despite the best efforts of Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner ...

Sundance 2025: "The military was not so keen on the version of the doc that I wanted to make," director Hailey Gates says at ...

War remains one of this nation’s most profitable exports, and in Atropia, which premiered at Sundance, Gates attempts to satirize the goings-on at this role-playing facility through the eyes of ...

He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because I was writing directly toward him,” she recalled. Gates and ...

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 ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay, includes a hampering romantic thread between our aspiring actress and a soldier cast as an Atropian ...