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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


 Irfana Majumdar made her directorial debut with "Shankar’s Fairies" in 2021.

Asian Pop-Up Cinema partners with The Block, features screening of ‘Shankar’s Fairies’

April 11, 2024

Shot over a 35-day span, “Shankar’s Fairies,” directed by Irfana Majumdar and written by her mother Nita Kumar, is a bittersweet, unembellished glimpse into Kumar’s childhood in 1960s Lucknow,...

Five film reels in storage

Block Museum’s ‘Araya’ showing kicks off Latin American women filmmaker cinema series

January 30, 2023

Moviegoers gathered Friday to watch “Araya,” the first of six films in the Block Museum of Art’s newest four-event Latin American women filmmaker series, “Working Images.” The evening event...

Front entrance of the Block Museum of Art.

Block Cinema screening event of ‘No Ordinary Man’ explores trans histories, representation and archives

April 24, 2022

The Block Museum screened the documentary “No Ordinary Man” alongside a discussion and workshop with co-Director Chase Joynt on Thursday. The film tells the story of Billy Tipton, a transmasculine...

Film still from “Fatma 75.”

Block Museum offers a feminist perspective to Arab histories through film series

October 28, 2020

The Block Museum of Art hosted “Liberating History: Arab Feminisms and Mediated Pasts” to celebrate Arab women's filmmaking and present a feminist perspective to past Arab histories. The online...

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