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

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

And it pays off. 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 ...

Photos from the Sundance Film Festival 2025, the premieres of 'Atropia' & 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' on Day 3.

Set in a fake town, Hailey Gates’ feature debut 'Atropia,' premiering at Sundance, has fun, insightful ideas, though it seldom expands on them.

War remains one of this nation’s most profitable exports, and in Atropia, which premiered at Sundance, 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 ...

Channing Tatum's surprise cameo in Hailey Gates' directorial debut, 'Atropia,' is making waves at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set in 2006,

Channing Tatum has played an unexpected role in one of the most anticipated films at the Sundance Film Festival recently. Tatum has a cameo role in director Hailey Gates's film Atropia. The film, starring Callum Turner and Alia Shawkat,

Sundance got a movie star surprise this weekend, when Channing Tatum popped up with a previously unannounced role in the competition title "Atropia."

The Sundance Film Festival catalogue can be overwhelming to navigate, with around 90 feature films playing across 11 days. Here are some highlights: “Atropia” This is a film that the producers would rather audiences experience blind,

The Sundance Film Festival catalogue can be overwhelming to navigate, with around 90 feature films playing across 11 days.