Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a distributor. By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia ...
Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...
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 ...
“Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury prize for its darkly comedic take on the intersection of war and performance, while Brittany Shyne’s ...
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 ...
On Friday, the annual fest in Park City, Utah, announced the winners of its 2025 trophies: "Atropia," an Iraq War satire starring Alia Shawkat, walked away with the U.S. dramatic Grand Jury Prize.
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 ...
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