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 ...

There is a moment in Atropia, Hailey Gates’ bold and deeply unsettling feature debut, where an actress — played with biting precision by Alia Shawkat — wanders into what appears to be an ...

The winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include Dylan O'Brien's 'Twinless,' the comedy 'Atropia' and the documentary ...

Hailey Gates’ ambitious debut feature Atropia ... The committed performances of Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner plus the Sundance US Grand Jury prize should guarantee attention for an uneven ...

“Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic ... “Atropia,” which stars Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny, follows an aspiring actor who falls in love with ...

It is hard to believe that the world of facsimiles that Hailey Gates builds is not a ... the film follows overly ambitious actress Fayruz (Alia Shawkat) through her days in “The Box ...

See the full list below. Hailey Gates’ war satire Atropia took the marquee U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing ...

By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia Shawkat as an Iraqi-American ... “Atropia,” written and directed by Hailey Gates, has not yet sold to a distributor.

Alia Shawkat, left, Hailey Gates and Callum Turner attend the premiere of Atropia during the Sundance Film Festival at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) The war ...