The Army talks a big game about Atropia being as realistic as possible (it even comes with its own competing TV networks, Box News and a fake Al-Jazeera), but "The Truman Show" it ain't.

Atropia screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it recently won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. 'Atropia' Review: Callum Turner & Alia Shawkat Play War Games ...

Sundance Film Festival ‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat Trains Troops Assigned to a Fake Iraqi Town in a Self-Reflexive War Comedy That Peters Out Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival on Jan 26, 2025.

Set in 2006, Atropia takes place at the titular U.S. military training ground in the California desert, where actors role-play as villagers in countries where the government plans to invade.

“Atropia” follows an aspiring actress at a military role-playing facility who falls for a soldier cast as an insurgent, their genuine emotions threatening to derail the performance. Shot at a ...

Atropia, Hailey Gates’ scattered debut feature, is based on a city invented by the American military to train cadets. That the United States erects role-playing facilities tasked with ...

The Army talks a big game about Atropia being as realistic as possible (it even comes with its own competing TV networks, Box News and a fake Al-Jazeera), but “The Truman Show” it ain’t.