Join us for a Master of Film screening: East of Noon + Q & A with Hala Elkoussy 
Thursday 30 October 2025 (19:30) at the Netherlands Film Academy

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About East of Noon
East of Noon is a feature film by Egyptian artist and filmmaker Hala Elkoussy: a magical-realist portrait of the inner workings of autocracy and its vulnerability to a youthful vision of a better world. Shot on 16mm and 35mm stock, and with elaborate set designs, the film tells the story of a young musician, Abdo, who encounters two sides of the same coin of oppression in a local despot, who rules the desert enclave through a mixture of entertainment and fear, and his grandmother, who soothes the inhabitants with tales of a mythical sea. The film premiered internationally at the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival 2024 and nationally at IFFR 2025. 

About Hala Elkoussy
Hala Elkoussy (Egypt, 1974) is a visual artist who works across a variety of media: photography, video, installation, sculpture. She has produced a number of short films that were screened in exhibitions and film festivals around the world among which the Istanbul Biennial, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou. Her artwork features in the collections of Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Jameel Collection among others.

She obtained her BA from the American University in Cairo and her MA from Goldsmith College, University of London. In 2004, she co-founded Cairo Image Collective, the first space dedicated to the image in the Region. In 2006, she completed a two-year Residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten.