🎬 Weekly film screenings – 08/11/2026 – 06/12/2026 – Sundays 17:30 @Pantheon Theatre
We present the programme “Burning Desires”
What are we really searching for when we desire something so intensely that we are willing to sacrifice everything to attain it?
The longing for love, recognition, artistic fulfilment, or a different life. Passions that drive us, sustain us, and sometimes consume us. Desires that push us beyond our limits, into conflict with ourselves and the world around us.
But what is it that we truly desire? Is it the object of our longing, or the promise of who we might become through attaining it?
Through five films, Burning Desires explores the fragile space between the lives we lead and the lives we imagine for ourselves. A space where desire can become both an act of liberation and a source of destruction.
Perhaps, in our pursuit of something outside ourselves, we are searching for something within us all along.
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The Red Shoes (1948)
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | 15 November 2026
Victoria Page is a gifted young ballerina whose extraordinary talent attracts the attention of Boris Lermontov, the demanding director of a prestigious ballet company. As her artistic ambitions begin to take shape, she finds herself caught between her devotion to dance, her love for a young composer, and the uncompromising expectations of the world she has entered.
A breathtaking fusion of dance, music, and Technicolor, The Red Shoes explores the consuming power of artistic passion and the sacrifices demanded in the pursuit of greatness. What does it mean to dedicate one’s life entirely to art? Must the pursuit of one desire come at the expense of another? Through Victoria’s struggle, Powell and Pressburger question the boundaries between creative fulfilment, personal freedom, and self-sacrifice, revealing how the very thing that gives our lives meaning can also threaten to take possession of them.