Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq ... a raid on some new recruits and a thematically overbearing visit to the plaster canals of the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas — only takes the movie further ...

Director and writer, Hailey Gates, along with lead actors Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner of 'Atropia,' drop in at our studio in Park City talk about the process adapting a short film and turning it ...

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat ... new wrinkle that Gates introduces to it — including a “Badlands”-esque subplot involving a raid on some new recruits and a thematically overbearing visit to the plaster ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... While blowing the government budget on sushi flown in from Vegas, they keep up patriotic appearances for the new recruits, refusing to hire an amputee actress ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... While blowing the government budget on sushi flown in from Vegas, they keep up patriotic appearances for the new recruits, refusing to hire an amputee actress who lost ...

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