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A Holy Family

Directed by: Elvis A-Liang Lu
Runtime: 1h 28min Certificate: PG
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Directed by: Elvis A-Liang Lu
Runtime: 1h 28min Certificate: PG
Topics: Personal Stories
Last Screened: Thu 9th Mar 2023

After 24 years of absence, director A-Liang Elvis Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan.

His elderly father, an underground lottery gambler, reads everything as a sign of lucky numbers. His brother is a psychic, communicating with Taoist deities on behalf of the local villagers.

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 homecoming and an unflinching tale of self-discovery through filmmaking.