Atropia is a 2025 American war satire film written and directed by Hailey Gates in her feature length debut, and starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.It is produced by Luca Guadagnino.. It had its world premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025, winning the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic.

11 hours ago · There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake ...

Atropia: Directed by Hailey Gates. With Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker. Follows an aspiring actress working on a U.S. military base that simulates an Iraqi war zone.

Set on the eve of Bush’s “surge”, the bloodiest year of the war, Atropia is a comedic love story cast against a uniquely absurd American backdrop.

In January 2019, a short film directed by Gates and starring Alia Shawkat, Shako Mako, premiered in Los Angeles. The film was produced as part of Miu Miu's Women's Tales series of shorts directed by women. [16] In 2023, she directed a feature length film, Atropia with Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner among the cast. [17]

This mirage of a place is a bizarre, liminal construction of writer-director Hailey Gates, whose incisive satire and clever wit are on full display. Co-stars Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner are joined by Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, and more in this completely original, surprisingly romantic, and sharply amusing directorial debut.—

2 days ago · Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” is quite the odd film. But that shouldn’t be taken as a negative! From the opening moments, there’s a strange aura permeating off the screen. It can be felt in both the performances and the location. All by design, Gates quickly throws her audience off-kilter in order to brace us for the tone and structure of ...

6 days ago · In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut Atropia, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamophobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense ...

Jan 25, 2025 · Sundance Comedy ‘Atropia’ is One of the Craziest True Stories You’ve Never Heard Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut is a messy, sexy satire based on an insane (and authentic) military ...

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.