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 ...

Film Review, a movie written and directed by Hailey Gates and starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Zahra Alzubaidi, Toby ...

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 ...

In the performance of war, who are the winners and who are the losers? That’s the central question of writer/director Hailey Benton Gates’ feature film debut, “Atropia.” The Sundance Jury ...

Shawkat began playing Mae "Maeby" Fünke when she was 14 years old Alia Shawkat took time to make peace with her Arrested Development past. Shawkat said that she was “incredibly lucky” to be cast in ...

ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU After a Palestinian teen gets swept into a West Bank protest in the 1980s, his mother recounts the family’s long story of hope and struggle. In Arabic, English and Hebrew, with ...

After losing both her job and her boyfriend (comes with the territory when you're dating your boss), an unmoored and unsettled Mae (Alia Shawkat) returns to her small Washington hometown to take care ...

Love is about to blossom on the not-so-real battlefield in the upcoming war satire Atropia. Originally premiering at Sundance back in January, Hailey Gates's feature directorial debut is about to hit ...

Alia Shawkat took time to make peace with her Arrested Development past. Shawkat, 36, opened up on the Dec. 22 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, hosted by Josh Horowitz about her long career.

In the performance of war, who are the winners and who are the losers? That's the central question of writer/director Hailey Benton Gates' feature film debut, "Atropia." The Sundance Jury ...