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How much luck does one need to make it in America? Lloyd Lee Choi’s feature directorial debut “Lucky Lu” confronts the tenuous nature of achieving the American Dream, as the indie centers on an immigrant delivery messenger (Chang Chen) whose life is upended after his bike is stolen.

Choi wrote the script as an expansion of his short film “Same Old,” which premiered at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in the Main Competition and went on to screen at TIFF with a Special Jury Mention and New York Film Festival before winning Best Short at Raindance. “Lucky Lu” now debuts at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight as a buzzy sales title. Indie filmmaker turned Marvel mainstay Destin Daniel Cretton produces the feature.

The official logline reads: “‘Lucky Lu’ follows a New York City delivery rider whose world is turned upside down when he loses his only source of income. With...