* 1976 in Minxiong (Chiayi County/Taiwan) 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;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 in 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;A HOLY FAMILY is his second feature documentary.

After 24 years of absence, director A-Liang Elvis Lu returns to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan.&nbsp; His elder brother, A-Zhi, has been recognized as a psychic in the village since the age of 12. Having set up a home altar with 12 Taoist deities since then, A-Zhi communicates deities’ advice to villagers on a donation basis; whereas A-Zhi helps believers make career decisions with his psychic readings, he repeatedly fails in his own entrepreneurial ventures in agriculture.&nbsp; The father of A-Liang and A-Zhi is a gambler who is addicted to an underground lottery and seeks celestial hints for good numbers even in the rising smoke of worshipping incense; he believes that the deities will one day show him lucky numbers to make him rich overnight. What holds the indebted family together is their mother. After 40-year marriage with her irresponsible husband, she is embittered in mind and increasingly enfeebled; the only consolation she finds is in their Taoist altar at home and a continuous stream of religious rituals performed there. A-Liang, urged by his mother to finance the family whenever a bill ends up unpaid, disagrees with his family’s religious practices, superstitions, and blind beliefs in supposedly life-changing miracles. When he comes back home from the capital with a camera more than two decades later, he is forced to face his own trauma and grudges and starts to observe the intertwined emotions in his family from the perspective of a filmmaker. It is an intimate journey of home-coming, a portrait of rekindled family bonding despite differences in religious beliefs, and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking.

A HOLY FAMILY is an intimate journey of home-coming, a portrait of rekindled family bonding despite differences in religious beliefs, and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking.

神人之家

English

A Holy Family

Elvis A-Liang

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The PRIX CINÉ+ crowns the best feature intended for cinema distribution across the competitions: International Documentary, National Documentary, Musical Documentary, Impact. The prize includes a 15,000€ rights purchase by Ciné+!

A HOLY FAMILY receives the Prix CINE+ at FIPADOC

The PRIX CINÉ+ crowns the best feature intended for cinema distribution across the competitions: International Documentary, National Documentary, Musical Documentary, Impact. The prize includes a 15,000€ rights purchase by Ciné+!

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