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Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia,” a unique war satire about western views of the Middle East. While both its lampooning of U.S. militarism ...
Gates and Shawkat, both Iraqi women who came of age during the George W. Bush-led war, both said they felt a “void” in cinema regarding this particular moment in history.
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 at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025, where it received mixed reviews from critics.
The 2006-set war satire – winner of Sundance's U.S. dramatic Grand Jury Prize – centers on a military role-playing facility in the California desert where Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an actress ...
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War satire 'Atropia' wins Sundance Film Festival's grand jury prize, Dylan O'Brien film 'Twinless' gets audience award
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Women were important logistical support to male combatants, since the army did not have an organized way to provision troops. Women sourced food and cooked it for individual soldiers. [10] For the Federal Army, its forced recruitment of soldiers (leva) meant that desertion rates were extremely high, since army service was a form of "semi-slavery."