Smokestacks rise like organ pipes over a coastal city, lined with oil refineries. Accidents at the plants occur with troubling regularity, and environmental disaster has become part of daily life. Residents protest the refinery’s planned expansion, even as they must coexist with the very neighbors who work there.
Chen Hung is a director, screenwriter, and editor based in Taiwan who holds an MFA in filmmaking from the National Taiwan University of Arts. His short film When the Wind Rises (2023) was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Vancouver International Film Festival. It was also nominated for Best Short Film at the Taipei Film Awards and won the Blencong Award for Best Short Film at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
