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
- 2023-01-18
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 33 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Pearl Gluck
Cast
- Lynn Cohen as Malkeh
- Shoshana Berger as Chicken Koshering Class
- Chana Horowitz as Chicken Koshering Class
- Esther Mandel as Chicken Koshering Class
- Shani Mendelevitch as Chicken Koshering Class
- Emily Seiff as Chicken Koshering Class
- Bee Weisberger as Chicken Koshering Class
- Nico Weisberger as Chicken Koshering Class
- Sarah Chany Rosenberg as Wigmaker
- M Miller as Women's Ethics Sermon
- Melissa Weisz as Shayndi
- Audrey Lang as Bride Class