Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or for this tour-de-force morality tale, which ignites the pursuit of truth with dark comedy and impassioned urgency. Driving through obstinate barriers of authoritarianism and censorship, this is a defining work of political cinema from one of Iran’s great auteurs.  

Julian Sklar (Ian McKellan), is  a formerly celebrated painter now living in obscurity. In a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance, his children enlist a forger to access his unfinished canvases.

Michaela Coel (creator and star of BBC One’s I May Destroy You) poses as his assistant to create fakes of Sklar’s unfinished series of paintings featuring a former lover, the titular Christopher.

The Comédie-Française is one of France’s most revered arts institutions, and the oldest still-performing theatre company in the world. There is one golden rule: the play is NEVER cancelled.