It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in ...

An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror it's own take on "The Truman Show ...

Callum Turner desperately wants to be bleeped, and Alia Shawkat's mother feared she couldn't act. Hailey Gates' new film pops ...

Hailey Gates expands on her short to disappointing results, despite the best efforts of Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner ...

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

He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because I was writing directly toward him,” she recalled. Gates and ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical ... It hints at the kinds of young people — naïve, desperate or over-eager — who get subsumed by hyper-masculine U.S. military ...

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

In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay ... Gates shows the ease with which ordinary people contribute to the nation’s war machine. One wishes that the director had used this thread ...

“We’re all just set dressing,” one of the characters in “Atropia” says. But in this particular movie, the set has more to say than any of the people trying to act their way out of it.