After 24 years away from home, director Elvis A-Liang Lu returns to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan, and confronts his parents and brother with their superstitious beliefs. Through this touching family portrait, ‘A Holy Family' reveals a slice of Taiwan's marginalized society and its everyday problems, from the harshness of rural life to the refuge of superstition. Selected for numerous documentary film festivals, ‘A Holy Family' is the director's second movie and certainly his most personal, the one in which he can't help but get involved.
A Holy Family is screening at Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
It all starts with a phone call from A-Liang's mother, urging him to come back home to discuss funeral arrangements. At first, he plans to help her take funeral portraits, but he soon begins filming their daily lives as he discovers their religious practices. His older brother, A-Zhi,...
A Holy Family is screening at Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
It all starts with a phone call from A-Liang's mother, urging him to come back home to discuss funeral arrangements. At first, he plans to help her take funeral portraits, but he soon begins filming their daily lives as he discovers their religious practices. His older brother, A-Zhi,...
- 5/12/2024
- by Hugo Hamon
- AsianMoviePulse
The slate of offerings from Taiwan at this year’s European Film Market is a solid one, without a doubt. Among the 92 titles of films and projects, there are recent Golden Horse award-winning titles as well as new regional and international co-productions, both completed or works in-progress, in a diverse range of genres that come with promising premises, and a delegation of at least 10 sales companies that will present at the event in Berlin.
Such a strong line-up of films available for international sales can be understood as a snapshot of current state of Taiwan cinema. There’s an emergence of a generation of new talent who dare to challenge the status quo of filmmaking and storytelling, and the ambition to reach an audience beyond the self-governed island is loud and clear. This is especially true following the international attention that “A Sun” and “The Falls” had previously garnered, the...
Such a strong line-up of films available for international sales can be understood as a snapshot of current state of Taiwan cinema. There’s an emergence of a generation of new talent who dare to challenge the status quo of filmmaking and storytelling, and the ambition to reach an audience beyond the self-governed island is loud and clear. This is especially true following the international attention that “A Sun” and “The Falls” had previously garnered, the...
- 2/16/2023
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
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