2025 Arab Film Festival Closing Night: East of Noon
Walker Art Center
725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN 55403- 09/28/2025
- 7pm
Event details
The 19th Twin Cities Arab Film Fest returns September 24–28, 2025 at the Main Cinema in Minneapolis, with a closing day of special films and programs at the Walker Art Center.
WHEN: Sept 24–28, 2025
WHERE: The Main Cinema + Walker Art Center
Mizna’s 19th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival holds its closing day with a pair of special screenings and a closing reception co-presented with and at the Walker Art Center.
At 5:15pm, join us for the closing reception in the Walker Lobby with light refreshments catered by Baba’s Hummus House.
At 7pm, join us for the closing screening featuring East of Noon by Hala Elkoussy, with a pre-recorded post-screening discussion with the filmmaker!
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ABOUT East of Noon
Following her distinctive debut, Cactus Flower (2017), Hala Elkoussy’s second feature, East of Noon, bends and blends genres, resulting in a satirical, contemporary fable, shot on 16mm. Set somewhere in Egypt, between a gritty industrial town and an imaginary seascape, Elkoussy’s film constructs a hyperreal world steeped in classic Egyptian film references, theatrical tableaux, and experimental sound compositions. Eccentric, rebellious, and unlike any film you’ve seen before, the world in East of Noon appears to exist outside of time, and it uses its unique aesthetic and unconventional storytelling methods to examine the inner workings of a dysfunctional and failing government as well as the ways that power limits our incentive to imagine and create a better world.
Hala Elkoussy (Egypt, 1974) is a visual artist who works across a variety of media: photography, video, installation, and sculpture. She has produced many short films that have screened in exhibitions and festivals around the world, including the Istanbul Biennial and the Tate Modern. In 2004, she cofounded Cairo Image Collective, the first space dedicated to the image in the region. She also established Fotomasr, an archive of Egyptian photographs from the 1800s to the 1970s. Her first feature film, Cactus Flower, received the Special Jury Award at the Aswan International Women’s Film Festival.