While labeled as a satire, the captivatingly original “Atropia” is an all-too-real portrayal of the United States during the ...

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 ...

“Atropia” was originally proposed as a documentary to study the mock villages that were built in the wake of 9/11. “The military was not so keen on the version of the doc that I wanted to ...

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition ...

Atropia is, in turn, a joke-dense spoof, one of Sundance’s funniest films, skewering the military-industrial complex, method acting, and rom-coms all in one. While a number of rom-coms are about ...

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