The year is 2006 and this is Atropia, a fictional country in California ... happens to be invading (in this case, Iraq). It's a real place that functions like a sprawling, immersive movie set ...

“Atropia” is almost too real to be called a satire ... and Fayruz quickly begins a relationship with Abu Dice (Callum Turner, “Queen and Country”), a previously deployed soldier cast as an Iraqi ...

Fictional country Atropia (shades of Duck Soup’s Freedonia) is a version of something that actually exists. At the end of the film we learn that some 200 mock villages are used throughout ...

For her feature directorial debut, Hailey Gates takes a shot at showcasing a very real fake place ... works at Atropia, a simulated country created by the U.S. military for immersive training ...

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition ...

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 ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia ... country in California, used as a stand-in to train new cadets for deployment to wherever America happens to be invading (in this case, Iraq). It’s a real ...

Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia ... country in California, used as a stand-in to train new cadets for deployment to wherever America happens to be ...