Castles in the Sky (2023)

Filmmaker and professor Pearl Gluck’s provocative latest dramatic short film centers on Malke, a Holocaust survivor and sex-ed teacher who has been leading a secret life for decades: performing slam poetry on the Lower East Side. Castles in the Sky features commanding performances from actor Lynn Cohen, who died in 2020, and poet Venus Thrash, who died in 2021.

Released Jan. 18, 2023 33 min None+

Genres: Drama, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, aspectratio.2-35-1

Production Companies: Sparks Next, Numeric Pictures, Palinka Pictures

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English, Yiddish