Award Winning Independent Cinema

In the final part of our celebration of the influence of Powell and Pressburger, The Barbican Theatre will host a film marathon with all of the dance-film guilty pleasures we love.

In Powell and Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. The film has proved an inspiration to filmmakers and dancers alike.

Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger is a major UK-wide celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships.

Powell and Pressburger weave their course of true love through flashes of surrealism, a life-threatening whirlpool and an ancient curse, disarming and enchanting in equal measure.

A psychological thriller set in the New York ballet, that follows Nina, a competitive, dedicated dancer, whose dreams of taking the lead in Swan Lake threaten to overpower her already fragile state of mind.

A darkness swirls at the centre of a world-renowned dance company in director Luca Guadagnino’s ambitious, dark and feminist re-imaging of Dario Argento’s sublime Suspiria.