East of Noon by Hala Elkoussy

A graduate of Goldsmiths’ College in London, Hala Elkoussy lives and works between Cairo and Amsterdam. In 2004, she co-founded the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) in Cairo, an artist-run initiative dedicated to the visual image. In 2006, she completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and in 2010, she won the Abraaj Capital Art Prize. In 2013, Elkoussy published her first book, a photographic journal about urban life after the Egyptian Revolution. Cactus Flower (2017) is her first feature film, and her film East of Noon (2024) screened at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight.

A woman-led contemporary arts organization, for 25 years Mizna has promoted experimental approaches to art, literature, and film, work that questions and expands the forms and conceptual frameworks of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) culture. The organization publishes a biannual print literary and art journal, Mizna, and Mizna Online. Producer of the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Mizna also offers readings, film series, performances, public art commissions, and community events that have featured 1000+ local and transnational writers, filmmakers, and artists.

Showcasing contemporary cinema made by Arab and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) filmmakers, the full festival runs September 24–28 at the Main Cinema in Minneapolis. For schedule and festival pass information, visit mizna.org.

Content note: This film contains suggestions of sexual violence.

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