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

Gates and Shawkat, who is Iraqi ... “We went out to the desert. [Alia] was trying to make a television show about her family because her dad owned a strip club, and I was like, ‘let’s ...

While labeled as a satire, the captivatingly original “Atropia” is an all-too-real portrayal of the United States during the ...

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

Brought in for his lived knowledge of what the troops will face over there, Fayruz looks at Abu and immediately senses him as a threat to her theatric domination—it’s a real “Sam & Diane” hate-to-love ...

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 ...

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 ...