Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The story centers around Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who works at the titular military ...

Gates was familiar with the film set-like war simulation campuses from growing up in Southern California, where many are based. Much of the Sundance premiere audience was shocked to learn such ...

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates ... of the film’s central romance amidst all the (fake) blood and (shoddy) carnage, paid off: on Friday, Sundance awarded ...

The winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include Dylan O'Brien's 'Twinless,' the comedy 'Atropia' and the documentary ...

The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2025 awards during a ceremony in Park City, Utah, on Friday. “Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury ...

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia,” written and directed by Hailey Gates ... though the film won the festival’s U.S. dramatic ...

It is hard to believe that the world of facsimiles that Hailey Gates ... make,” said Gates in an interview with The Wrap. “So we decided to be satire.” As a result, the film follows overly ...

The Sundance Film Festival is regarded as one of the most ... 2023), Alessandra Lacorazza (In The Summers,2024) and Hailey Gates (Atropia, 2025). Heder’s film CODA would become the first ...

As it searches for a new home beyond Park City, Utah, the film festival showcases ... in a serious vein from the director Hailey Gates.Credit...via Sundance Institute One pressing challenge ...

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, talk on the ground frequently turned ... I really dug the war satire Atropia, the feature debut of writer-director Hailey Gates. In 2006, wannabe Hollywood ...

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