Hailey Gates’ feature debut has fun ... “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 ...

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

Welcome to Atropia: an invented city constructed to exercise Western imaginations and soldiers.This mirage of a place is a bizarre, liminal construction of writer-director Hailey Gates ...

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her ... At the heart of both the short and Atropia is Alia Shawkat’s Fayruz, whose Iraqi heritage and ...

An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut ... chance to get cast in a real role. Shawkat’s spry comedic timing works ...

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut Atropia ... in countries where the government plans to invade. Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an ambitious actress determined to make her ...

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 ...

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

In our lively interview with Turner, costar Alia Shawkat, and director Hailey Gates at the IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox, Shawkat reveals her mom once thought she couldn't act.

Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia ... identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through ...

Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of “Atropia,” starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker. The movie, which is produced by Luca Guadagnino, is a feature ...