WU Hsuan-wei

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.

Jen-chieh returns to Taiwan after his visa expires. In the old family home, he tries to find the traces of his father's love and the courage to get closer to his father.