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 ...

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 ...

That’s the unsexy truth at the heart of Hailey Gates’ bizarre and bloody ... some of our worst militaristic impulses post 9/11. Alia Shawkat is magnetic on-screen, playing an aspiring actress ...

It's the subject of Hailey Gates' new film of the same name, playing in competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner "Growing up in L.A., there was a ...

Writer/director Hailey Gates' "Atropia" won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category, scoring top honors for a film that started life as a documentary. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film ...

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 ...

What to know: Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress ... Things get wonky when she falls in love. Writer-director Hailey Gates told me on the red carpet that this movie is based on a real ...

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 ...

Click on the movie’s title to read our full take. Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition Director-screenwriter: Hailey Gates Cast: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy ...

One such actor is Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), who dreams of becoming ... and the film could benefit from more focus, Hailey Gates successfully draws intriguing parallels between war and the ...