Niel de Bruijn is a 20 year-old designer and filmmaker living and working in Utrecht (The Netherlands). Studying at the Graphic Design department of the University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU).
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Q&A, Conversation w, Director
Feb 2026
Poster, Event
Movie
I organised a Q&A and Conversation with Diretor Alex Bakri about his movie Habibi Hussein. Habibi Hussein is about a restored cinema: the only movie theater in Jenin, a Palestinian city of nearly 50,000 that has been in the news in recent years due to numerous devastating attacks by the Israeli army.
After seeing the film myself at IFFR, and subsequently receiving an assignment where I had to shine a spotlight on an unseen artist, I immediately thought of using this film. I contacted the director and producers of this film to try and organize an Q&A and Conversation for my classmates, and luckily Alex Bakri himself was very excited to collaborate!!
This poster was made to promote the event. It was very special and educational to be able to talk with the filmmaker, also because I enjoy filmmaking myself. We discussed the filmmaking process and much more.
Habibi Hussein (2025) is an unusually biased take on the story, in which the protagonist, the cinema’s former and future projectionist, Hussein Darbi, uses his 40 years of experience and connections to get the arc lamp projector working again—while the NGO team treats him like an apprentice. A warning against cultural colonization and an allegory for much more than just film.