Hailey Gates’ feature debut has fun, insightful ideas, though it seldom expands on them. Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia ...

Gates and Luca Guadagnino had been friends for a few years before she arrived on the Boston set of “Challengers” for a bit part. He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only ...

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 ...

An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature ... Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay ...

Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of "Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim ...

Weaving absurdism and romance, “Atropia” interrogates the Western perspective of the Middle East. Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

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 ...

Director Hailey Gates (debut) travels back to 2006 to explore Atropia through the eyes of aspiring actress Fayruz (Alia Shawkat, “The Final Girls”). Based on a real military simulation town, Medina ...

“Uncut Gems” actress and filmmaker Hailey Gates had her plans for a documentary ... into an unconventional love story instead, and “Atropia” was born. The film, which premiered on Saturday ...

Notable past credits: As an actor, Gates has appeared in films like “Challengers” — which is how she connected with Guadagnino — and “Uncut Gems.” She hosted the Viceland series ...