Only the River Flows (Chinese: 河边的错误; pinyin: Hébiān de Cuòwù) is a 2023 Chinese neo-noir art film directed by Wei Shujun, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kang Chunlei. The film, starring Zhu Yilong, is based on Yu Hua's short novel Mistakes by the River. It follows a police chief as he investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. The movie was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section of 76th Cannes Film Festival in May 2023. The film was released theatrically in China on 21 October 2023. As of November 7, the total box office of the film is 301 million RMB, placing it among China's highest-grossing art films.