Zhu Yilong

Continuing the recent trend of moody neo-noirs from mainland China, this tenebrous psychological thriller from director Wei Shujun follows a small-town detective into the mouth of madness. Stunningly shot on Super 16, Only the River Flows is a pungently atmospheric serial-killer procedural.

When a ten-year-old tunnel is set to be finished, suffering from worldwide geological adjustments, a sequence of geological failures inclusive of floor fissures, earthquakes, landslides, mudslides and so on are coming. The tunnel and the entire county are at stake. Lao Hong and Xiao Hong, the daddy and son stood up in desperate situation. How did they survive this life-and-death crisis with 160,000 citizens?