Food is one of cinema’s most intimate and unsettling subjects. It is a basic human necessity, but on screen it becomes something much more complex: a symbol of desire, identity, control and more. This programme explores the strange, provocative and sometimes disturbing ways filmmakers use food to examine the boundaries between the body and the world around it.

Across these films, eating is rarely just about nourishment. Food becomes a metaphor for hunger in all its forms - sexual, emotional, psychological. It can represent intimacy and connection, but also obsession, excess, shame and violence. These films ask what happens when appetite escapes the rules we place around it: when desire becomes overwhelming, when pleasure becomes uncomfortable or when the things we consume reveal something hidden about ourselves.

From the grotesque and taboo to the sensual and celebratory, the programme moves through different cinematic approaches to taste and disgust. Some films challenge our ideas of what is acceptable; others use food as a way to explore transformation, power and identity. Here delicious and the disturbing exist side by side.