dreaming of an acting career beyond Atropia. Meanwhile, a new cohort of soldiers arrive, comically underprepared to be stationed abroad, and Fayruz quickly begins a relationship with Abu Dice (Callum ...

I often find it fascinating when Hollywood teams up with the US military to promote propaganda or even to inform us about historical secrets that have long been buried. For her feature directorial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...