When the Wind Rises

Documentary about making of "Three Tears in Borneo".

Two sisters live in a second-hand store where drug parties are common. Chun finds solace by hiding herself in an old fridge, while Chieh appears indifferent. After a quiet murder is almost carried out on a summer afternoon, Chun realizes her seemingly amiable uncle is a perpetrator, plunging her into an emotional abyss.

Wu Ziyan lives in Zhonglin Village, a place engulfed by industrial zones, together with her mother who suffers from mental illness. When the village faces relocation, Ziyan sees a glimmer of hope for a new life, but she is also torn by inner conflict. A brief trip with her boyfriend becomes a turning point—she leaves her mother alone at home… but where will everything lead?

A young couple is trapped in a painful memory of burying a baby. A change in one of the reincarnations makes the woman realize that the baby is still alive and digs it out. Finally, she takes the baby out of the reincarnation.

A boy’s closest friend is a cow he has grown up with. When the cow faces an uncertain fate, the boy embarks on a journey, determined to keep his friend safe. Along the journey, he comes to see that love, care, and understanding are far more complex than he had imagined.

1961, post-war Taiwan. Ma Shuisheng, the eldest son of the Ma family, is forced to sell the family's ancestral land to purchase morphine for his ailing parents, providing them relief from pain. Eventually, Shuisheng faces a heart-wrenching decision between their last piece of farmland and his newborn child.

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.

Two mixed-race children of the US military in Taiwan, one speaking Hakka, the other Taiwanese. In the ruins of a former military dormitory, they speak slowly, uncovering a history their faces and languages could never fully inhabit, their memories moving like ghosts along the edges of history.

Amidst the scorching rural countryside, among the neighbors, her mother-in-law, and the sound of chickens. Chen Wen-yi is the new one in town, a wife, a daughter-in-law, and perhaps in the future, a mother. However, will there finally be a moment when she can purely be herself?