Weaving absurdism and romance, “Atropia” interrogates the Western perspective of the Middle East. Directed by Hailey Gates, ...

Hailey Gates’ war satire Atropia took the marquee U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features. Alia Shawkat stars as an ...

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 program, its 41st edition, kicked off January 23 in Utah ...

Photos from the Sundance Film Festival 2025, the premieres of 'Atropia' & 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' on Day 3.

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 towns ...

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

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a ...

Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” and Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds” claimed the top jury awards at Sundance, along with audience favorites ...

You could see them from the freeway,” Gates told Variety on the eve of the ... She described it as a kind of gonzo film school. “I’ve always used it to get on other director’s sets.

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

Film wasn't the only thing on people's minds at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which comes to a close Sunday in Park ...

As festival programmers like to say, Sundance isn’t the end of the ... equation when it comes to judging the response to a film. Hailey Gates’ war satire “Atropia” got mixed reviews ...