Castles in the Sky

01/18/2023

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0hr 33min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lynn Cohen
  • Shoshana Berger
  • Chana Horowitz
  • Esther Mandel
  • Shani Mendelevitch

    Directors

  • Pearl Gluck
  • Thaddeus 'Self' Williams
  • Quentin Smith
  • WU Hsuan-wei

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Palinka Pictures
  • Sparks Next
  • Numeric Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Yiddish