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Nov 25, 2022 · A Holy Family: Directed by Elvis Lu. Explores an intimate portrait of rekindled family bonding and a tale of self-discovery through a home-coming story of the director, who returns to his village in Taiwan after a 24-year absence.
A family hiding a shocking secret starts over in Madrid, where new relationships complicate their plans and the past begins to catch up with them. Watch trailers & learn more.
Dec 2, 2022 · In A Holy Family (神人之家), the members of the Lu family (盧) probably talk to the pantheon of 12 deities worshipped at the home altar more than they do each other. Mired in debt and suffering from poor harvests, they just go about life and pray that the gods will bring them luck.
Apr 13, 2022 · For his second feature-length documentary, A Holy Family, which has just world-premiered in the main competition of Visions du Réel, Taiwanese filmmaker Elvis A-Liang Lu returns from Taipei to his home village in the south-west of the island for the first time after 24 years. Reconnecting with his family, the director creates an account that ...
Feature Film Competition Visions du RéelInternational Film Festival Nyon53nd édition07–17.4.2022www.visionsdureel.ch
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a confraternity.
The previously estranged family, where love and grudges always intertwine and interchangeably surface, slowly comes closer together through A-Liang’s lens. 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.
