Yankel (Jacob) Cohen
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.
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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.
Eli Eisenstein
After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Efrayim Eisenstein will come to realize that it’s much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.
Ben
Three religions. Two men. One mission. Ben has gone off into the desert. In order to escape the matchmaking attempts of his family in Jerusalem, he agrees to fly to Alexandria to save what was once the largest Jewish community in the world, which is desperately short of a tenth man to celebrate Passover. When Ben misses his flight and is subsequently thrown off a bus in the Sinai Desert, a grumpy Bedouin in search of his lost camel becomes Ben’s only hope.
Shaye
A magical realist comedy about Mortality, Mysticism and the metaphysics of facial hair in Hasidic Brooklyn
After the birth of her first child, a young woman struggles to find herself in the new role and connect to her new-born baby.
Michoel
Мексиканские девушки-гастарбайтеры стоят у дороги и надеются поработать так же, как в Великую Депрессию стояли толпами безработные американцы. Одной из них, Фернанде, везёт, её наймут в хасидскую семью, где было заподозрившая её в лености хозяйка, молодая мама Нечама, обнаружит, что уборщице не платит еврей-шовинист из кадрового агентства. Объяснившись на плохоньком английском, Фернанда вместе с новообретённой подругой добьётся если не справедливости, то хотя бы отомстит обидчику. Взаимопонимание, как и полагается, окажется сильнее классового деления общества. Не на это ли примирение, гендерное и кросскультурное, надеется вся Америка, а вслед за ней и весь мир?
Himself, ex-Hasidic
История о хасидах, которые решили порвать со своими общинами и религиозными убеждениями ради светской жизни. В центре конфликта каждого из этих людей лежат отношения с семьей.
Shulem
A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
