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FORTUNE HOUSE

Written and Directed by Exa Huang
Produced by Exa Huang, Nora Zhang
Cinematogrohy by Ben Zack
Production Design by Emily Ma
Edited by April Yang

We often say immigration is a kind of deal with the devil—but what does that really mean? Is it about selling your soul, or something more literal, like trading away parts of your body, identity, or future just to survive?

Mo is a low-wage delivery worker living on the margins in the United States. One day, while fleeing from ICE, he accidentally stumbles into a hidden space—an uncanny “lucky room” that appears ordinary at first, but is quietly governed by an unseen, almost demonic logic of rules, chance, and exchange.

Inside, survival is not guaranteed by effort alone, but by participation in a system where everything has a price. Every choice becomes a wager, and every gain requires a sacrifice. What begins as a place of refuge slowly reveals itself as a controlled arena where people are pushed to “play” for upward mobility—trading fragments of themselves for a chance to move forward.

As Mo learns to navigate this distorted economy of luck and loss, he is forced to confront a deeper question: in a world where survival itself is transactional, what does it mean to remain human—and how does one ever truly get “a seat at the table”?

FORTUNE HOUSE is a surreal immigrant allegory about systems of survival, invisible rules of power, and the cost of trying to belong in a world that demands constant negotiation of the self.