Profile: Noha Adel

Egyptian screenwriter and director Noha Adel’s debut feature, Spring Came Laughing, has the honor of representing Egypt in competition this year at the Cairo Film Festival. In it, four stories about women intertwine and converge. To encourage her promise as an emerging filmmaker, she has been awarded the Next Generation Award, jointly presented by the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) and The Film Verdict.

Noha is a graduate of Cairo University’s English department and has a background in Learning and Development. Her passion for filmmaking led her to attend a Fundamentals of Directing workshop in 2017.

As her graduation project, she made the short film Into Reverse, which had its premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival. In 2020 she wrote and directed her second short film, Once Upon a Time in the Café. Both films received acclaim and went on to participate in various local and international festivals, where they won multiple awards. Her career made a leap forward with her first feature, Spring Came Laughing.