As Freud pointed out, we are driven by our appetites. Without them, we become colourless and bland. However, too much of them, we become slaves to them, pursuing little other than their satisfaction. Be it oral, anal, phallic, genital, or all their derivatives, such as voracious hunger, acquisitiveness, and a need for unlimited wealth, fear of commitment and wanderlust, or sublimations such as curiosity and the fear of not knowing or the dread of not being in control, our behaviour is ruled by the outcome of our battle with our appetites. The seminal paper “Seven Infants with Esophageal Atresia” (a condition where the baby’s esophagus is not connected with the stomach) found that when babies are not allowed to explore with and through their mouths (these babies had to be fed through an outside tube connected directly to the stomach to avoid choking and malnutrition) as toddlers they become listless and strangely content with doing nothing, as if “looking for nothing.” In other words, because they were not allowed to experience hunger, the absence of food, and its satisfaction, through eating and feeling satiated, they did not develop appetitive behaviours: feeling hungry, searching, protesting, crying, mouthing, and finally contentment and the feeling of fullness. This would mean, to be sure, that appetites are not always pathological, but, as Freud pointed out, biological drives that push for satisfaction—hunger, thirst, desire for intimacy, sex. Occasionally though, appetites become more than drives: they clamour for immediate gratification, know no bounds, and become all-encompassing as in addictions, compulsions to acquire or to work. Occasionally, even love itself becomes a subject of a perversion. Literature, drama, and cinema have been preoccupied with the exploration of the whys and the wherefores of appetites. To explore the theme of appetites, seven films will be screened. After a short break, the film’s discussant will present a formal paper that will lead the group into a general discussion.