The film "Atropia" is a dark comedy set at a U.S. military facility in California designed to simulate battle conditions in Iraq. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with actor Alia Shawkat.

Shawkat, who will next be seen in Kristen Stewart's and Dylan Meyers' "The Wrong Girls," on her Sundance-winning film and new ...

Time for a cinematic litmus test. If the phrase “military industrial complex romantic comedy” rings your bells, Hailey Gates’ feature directorial debut “Atropia” just might be for you. What if we told ...

From writer-director Hailey Benton Gates, it follows a group of performers in a town designed as a warfare simulation to prepare U.S. soldiers “To play an Iraqi struggling actress is right up my alley ...

"We're helping a group of teenagers to invade our homeland... in a gentler way." Vertical has revealed the first official trailer for an indie film creation titled Atropia, marking the feature ...

It’s the story of a real, fake place. That is, Hailey Gates' new movie, Atropia, a film based on military training camps in the American desert that simulated war zones in Iraq. Written and directed ...

The comedy from writer-director Hailey Benton Gates, out now, stars Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner Atropia, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, is in theaters now, and PEOPLE has an exclusive ...

Time for a cinematic litmus test. If the phrase "military industrial complex romantic comedy" rings your bells, Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut "Atropia" just might be for you. What if we told ...