Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia,” a unique war satire about western views of ...

Brought in for his lived knowledge of what the troops will face over there, Fayruz looks at Abu and immediately senses him as a threat to her theatric domination—it’s a real “Sam & Diane” hate-to-love ...

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, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set ...

An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also stars Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny.

It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in between.

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... Following her collaboration with Shawkat for the 2019 short Shako Mako, part of Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales series, Gates fleshes out Fayruz’s ambitious ...

Hailey Gates turned her Miu Miu "Women's Tales" short film into a Sundance feature, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.

Atropia has everything, from its own customary clothing (costuming by Angelina ... This could be her chance to get cast in a real role. Shawkat’s spry comedic timing works well at the beginning ...

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a ...

This all comes despite the best efforts of leads Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner ... “Atropia” begins exactly how the short did — with a stereotypically staged Iraqi street becoming a ...