An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also ...

It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in between.

Atropia': How Callum Turner & Alia Shawkat Found A Soul Connection In Hailey Gates' War Satire - Sundance Studio ...

Gladstone, who earned the Oscar nomination for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s historical drama, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” was joined in the discussion by actress and producer ...

Rose Byrne, Alia Shawkat and Rachel Sennott lead the stars attending day three of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. On Saturday, high-profile celebrities flocked events held by ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an ambitious actress determined to make her big break in Hollywood while working in the simulation, despite her conflicting feelings about the war in Iraq.

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver who came to California in the hopes of becoming a famous Hollywood actress. Instead, she wound up in “The Box,” playing an Atropian DVD seller ...

Gates attempts to satirize the goings-on at this role-playing facility through the eyes of Fayruz (an excellent Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who rotates between roles like Iraqi street ...

In our lively interview with Turner, costar Alia Shawkat, and director Hailey Gates at the IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox, Shawkat reveals her mom once thought she couldn't act.