Lucky Lu
Directed by Lloyd Lee ChoiCast: Chang Chen, Fala Chen, Carabelle Manna Wei
- Narrative Features
- USA
- Drama, International
- Mandarin, English
- Subtitled
- 2025
- 103 mins
- Los Angeles premiere
Official Selection, 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.
Lucky Lu follows a New York City delivery rider whose world is turned upside down when he loses his only source of income. With his long-estranged family finally on their way from Asia, Lu is forced to navigate the unforgiving city and fight to protect the fragile life he’s spent all these years building.
Credits
Writer: Lloyd Lee Choi
Producer: Destin Daniel Cretton, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Asher Goldstein, Tony Yang, Ron Najor, Jeyun Munford
Executive Producer: Forest Whitaker, Kevin M. Lin, Michael Y. Chow, Jason A. Lin, Bing Chen, Maggie Hsu, Nicole Tao, Clara Wu Tsai, Jamie Lin, Daphne Lee, Peng Zhao, Jennifer J. Pritzker, Van Ness Wu, Steve D. Yang, Dajun Yang, Yifan Zhai
Director of Photography: Norm Li, CSC
Editor: Brendan Mills
Production Designer: Evaline Wu Huang
Composer: Charles Humenry
Sound Designer: Matt Drake
Music: Maxwell Gosling
Dates & Times
Directors Guild of America
April 30, 2026
7:30 pm
