A Holy Family
Winners of the 2022 Taipei Film Award Grand Prize, Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Audience Selection. Nominated for the 2022 Golden Horse Award in Best Documentary and Best Editing.
A Holy Family is a personal account of A-Liang Elvis Lu’s own return to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan after 24 years of absence. It explores the conflicts A-Liang has with his family with their religious practices, superstitions, and what he sees as blind beliefs in supposedly life-changing miracles. Carrying with him just a camera, A-Liang is forced to face his own trauma and grudges as he starts to observe the intertwined emotions in his family from the perspective of a filmmaker. It is an intimate journey of homecoming, a portrait of rekindled family bonding despite differences in religious beliefs, and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking.
Documentary | Elvis Lu | 2022 | 87 min
Language: Mandarin and Taiwanese
Subtitles: English and Traditional Chinese
Screening Time: Saturday, Sept. 9th, 4:00 PM
Director Biography
Elvis Lu
Elvis A-Liang Lu is a Taiwanese documentary director. After graduating from the National Taiwan University of the Arts (NTUA), he worked as a director and cameraman on several commercial and independent Taiwanese documentaries. In 2017 he released his first feature-length documentary, The Shepherds, revolving around the story of Taiwan’s first LGBT-friendly church. The film competed in the documentary section of the Taipei International Film Festival and was shown at the Sydney World Film Festival and Czech Euro Kino Independent Film Festival. It was also selected as the closing film for Taiwan’s first Queer Film Festival. A Holy Family is his second feature documentary.
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