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 ...

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 ...

Release Date January 25, 2025 Runtime 104 Minutes Genres Drama, Comedy Cast Zahra Alzubaidi, Callum Turner, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy, Chloe Sevigny, Alia Shawkat Director Hailey Gates Writers ...

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 ...

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

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

Atropia, Hailey Gates' scattered debut feature ... role-playing facility through the eyes of Fayruz (an excellent Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who rotates between roles like Iraqi street ...