In the biting satire "How to Fake a War", a desperate PR guru, played by Katherine Parkinson, and her opportunistic American media partner, portrayed by Jay Pharoah, concoct a dangerously absurd scheme to revive a fading charity rock concert. To generate global headlines and ticket sales, they decide to fabricate a war in a small, peaceful Eastern European nation, recruiting a naive young intern (Lily Newmark) and a cynical war photographer (Daryl McCormack) to stage the conflict. Directed by Rudolph Herzog, this dark comedy plunges its characters into a farcical spiral of fake news and manufactured chaos, where their cynical ploy begins to blur the lines between reality and performance. As their fictional war threatens to spark very real consequences, the team must navigate a minefield of their own making, questioning how far they will go for a cause that never existed.