Reality blurs with performance and even love is just another scripted role in the big Sundance winner of 2025, 'Atropia.' ...

There it is,” says Computer Conor, finding the advert for his modest computer-art service in the latest issue of Personal ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror its own take on "The Truman Show." Case in point: One early sequence in ...

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 ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay, includes a hampering romantic thread between our aspiring actress and a soldier cast as an Atropian ...

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake ...

War remains one of this nation’s most profitable exports, and in Atropia, which premiered at Sundance, Gates attempts to satirize the goings-on at this role-playing facility through the eyes of ...

'Twinless' and 'André Is an Idiot' were honored with the Audience Awards. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Additionally, Zodiac Killer Project landed the NEXT innovator award, with ...

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 ...

And it’s gonna happen. The frantic desire to be bleeped certainly captures the manic energy of his new, cockeyed rom-com, “Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates and co-starring Alia Shawkat.