"Atropia," a film that centers around a fictional country the Army created in 2012, is set to release on Dec. 12. A new movie trailer just dropped for soldiers fortunate enough to survive a month of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is the official image from “Atropia,” courtesy of the Sundance Institute. “Atropia” is almost ...

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. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture ...

There is a moment in Atropia, Hailey Gates’ bold and deeply unsettling feature debut, where an actress — played with biting ...

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 Shawkat as an ...

An absurdist glimpse at workaday life within one of the very real, very strange U.S. military training grounds where role-players simulate foreign battlegrounds in order to prepare our troops for ...

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 of ...

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 prize for its ...

Vertical Entertainment has acquired the U.S. rights to “Atropia,” the winner of this year’s Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features, for a release this December. Directed by Hailey Gates, ...