Hailey Gates’ ambitious debut feature Atropia is full of comic potential that is never quite realised. The mixture of war games satire, deadpan farce and sweet romance provides amusement along ...

There is no need to imagine. It is hard to believe that the world of facsimiles that Hailey Gates builds is not a product of pure fiction. “Atropia” was originally proposed as a documentary to ...

“Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury prize for its darkly comedic take on the intersection of war and performance, while Brittany Shyne’s ...

Hailey Gates’ Atropia took home this year’s Grand Jury prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition. The political satire stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility ...

“This movie is so strange,” “Atropia’s” writer-director, Hailey Gates, said as she accepted her award at The Ray theater in Park City on Friday. “I did not think that anybody would be ...

while brands like Miu Miu, Zara, and Khaite are all featuring the material in their collections. Earlier this week, Hailey was spotted on another outing, also without Justin, this time wearing a ...

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 ...

Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The story centers around Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who works at the titular military ...

Although these sites are a somewhat dark and complicated aspect of American warfare, writer/director Hailey Gates takes the concept to its most farcical extreme with “Atropia,” a satire that ...

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates recently revealed that his divorce from ex-wife Melinda French Gates was his biggest regret. In an interview with British newspaper The Times ...

Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates is opening up about his "lucky" early childhood, his years "getting hooked on coding" and his belief that, if we grew up today, he'd probably be diagnosed ...

Hailey Gates turned her Miu Miu "Women's Tales" short film into a Sundance feature, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.