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Sundance 2025 Q&A: Hailey Gates’ satire film ‘Atropia’ critiques US war involvement through humor
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 ...
Vulture29d
Hailey Gates Goes Full Silly With Atropia
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 ...
Sundance 2025 Awards: ‘Atropia’ and ‘Seeds’ Take Jury Prizes, Dylan O’Brien-Led ‘Twinless’ Wins Audience Award
The winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include Dylan O'Brien's 'Twinless,' the comedy 'Atropia' and the documentary ...
Los Angeles Times28d
Sundance’s top prizes go to ‘Atropia’ and ‘Seeds’
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 ...
The New York Times29d
Sundance Gives Top Honor to ‘Atropia,’ a Comedy About Playing War
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 ...
Deadline.com29d
Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winners Through The Years
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 ...
The Harvard Crimson28d
From Sundance: ‘Atropia’ is a Hilarious Masterwork of Political Satire
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 New York Times29d
At Sundance, a Sense of Uprooting Onscreen and Off
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 ...
The Salt Lake Tribune29d
Big winners at Sundance 2025: An Iraq War satire, profiles of Black farmers, a true-crime dissection
“This movie is so strange,” “Atropia’s” writer-director, Hailey ... festival’s online portal, now through Sunday. Here is the full list of award winners for the 2025 Sundance Film ...
KQED29d
These Films Took the Top Prizes at Sundance – Plus 11 Films NPR Loved
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 ...
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It List guide to Sundance Film Festival: 'Opus,' 'Twinless' and the other movies that had everyone talking
Welcome to the It List Sundance guide, where I’m sharing my picks for the best of the festival’s films ... Writer-director Hailey Gates told me on the red carpet that this movie is based ...