The comedy film Trung so (Jackpot) will compete in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Annual Oscar Academy Awards.
The movie based on the true story is directed by Vietnamese-American Dustin Nguyen and written by writer and playwright Nguyen Manh Tuan
The funny and touching story is about a girl selling lottery tickets in the Mekong Delta.
She hands winning lottery tickets to a man who merely nods to buy them without paying her right away. She does that since he usually purchases the last tickets she has just before a lottery draw.
The Academy Awards or The Oscars is an annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry.
The awards was first presented in 1929, its ceremony was first televised in 1953. The Academy Awards ceremony is widely considered to be the most prestigious cinema awards ceremony in the world.
