Occurring between Jan. 23 and Feb. 2, the festival includes a selection of the top independent films produced over the past year. Films like “Opus,” “Atropia,” “Twinless,” “Lurker,” and so many more, ...

EFM slate includes Shatara Michelle Ford's Panorma selection Dreams In Nightmares, Lili Horvát's My Notes On Mars.

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 ...

That’s the unsexy truth at the heart of Hailey Gates’ bizarre and bloody Bush-era satire. Based on the real-life military training camps that dot the California/Nevada deserts, Atropia is a ...

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 ...

The critically panned “Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury prize for its satiric take on the intersection of war and performance, while Brittan ...

As I was writing this report from Sundance 2025, the festival announced the winner of its Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition: Hailey Gates’s Atropia, a mordant satire set in one of ...

Deadline’s takeaway: Ripe with aughts nostalgia around the OG iPod, frosted lip gloss and Guy Fieri’s favorite flame-printed shirts, Atropia is ultimately a clever meditation on the atmosphere of war ...

News of the audience voted award comes after Friday’s full reveal of the Sundance Film Festival Awards for 2025, a ceremony that saw Hailey Gates’ Atropia starring Alia Shawcat and Callum Turner win ...

Hailey Gates’ war satire “Atropia” got mixed reviews from critics, but premiere audiences were very enthusiastic (as was the U.S. dramatic jury who gave it the festival’s top prize ...