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

"Uncut Gems" actress and Filmmaker Hailey Gates turned her would be military training village documentary into an unconventional love story.

The village is small and dense, lined with crumbling structures and the exploded remains of cars. The women, hanging laundry or selling American movies on DVD out of dusty briefcases, are suspicious.

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake ...

Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The story centers around Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who works at the titular military ...

Hailey Gates’ feature debut has fun, insightful ideas, though it seldom expands on them. Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia ...

Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” and Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds” claimed the top jury awards at Sundance, along with audience favorites ...

Sundance project: Gates is the writer and director of "Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker. The movie, which is produced by Luca Guadagnino ...