A NEWS conference about Chinese indie filmmaker Li Ruijun’s literary film “River Road” was held in Gansu Province.

    Director Li together with executive producer Fang Li and best-selling author Han Han attended the conference.

    It is a masterfully lensed nomadic road movie set in his dusty native province of Gansu.

    In the film, Bartel and Adikeer, two ethnic Yugur brothers, venture out with their two-humped camels to join their herdsman father, after their grandfather dies, by following a dried-up riverbed.

    Featuring the sand-blown splendor of infinitely sprawling vistas, ghost towns and touches of the fantastic, “River Road” is an absolute masterpiece of Chinese filmmaking.

    The film was nominated for best film at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.

    It is slated for release on Sept. 3.(SD-Agencies)