半句再见
Locked out of his comatose partner’s care because the law doesn’t count him as family, a man is stuck in a foreign city caring for the partner’s mother instead, who speaks no English and never knew they were together.
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Your partner collapses abroad. The hospital asks if you’re family. Legally, you’re not.
Andy has spent eight years with Keong. In an Estonian hospital, none of it counts. The only person who can decide is the one Keong never told: his mother.
Jack Tan as Andy
- Best Leading Actor nominee, Golden Bell Awards 2026
- Best Supporting Actor nominee, Golden Horse Awards 2023
- Best Supporting Actor, Malaysia Film Festival 2024
A bilingual television actor. Open and expressive, he lights up any room he walks into. Behind the warmth is a people pleaser, always afraid of not being enough.
Yeo Yann Yann as Mother
- Best Leading Actress, Golden Horse Awards 2019
- Best Supporting Actress, Golden Horse Awards 2013
- Best Actress nominee, International Emmy Awards 2020
A single mother who has only just managed to hold everything together on her own. She protects her family by deciding what is worth saying and what isn’t.
Shane Pow as Keong
- Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes, Star Awards 2015 to 2017
- Best Supporting Actor nominee, Star Awards 2018, 2019
A secondary school teacher who is present in body and rarely in words. He says as little as he can for fear of disappointing, so every sentence carries only half of what he means.
A week neither of them chose.
Signs in Estonian. Menus in euros. Google Translate passed across every table. A winter city neither of them can read, and sitting opposite, the one they understand least: each other.
Everyone here holds back half a sentence.
Keong, to MaDraft · not sent
Ma, there’s someone I want you to meet.
Andy, to KeongDraft · not sent
Text me when you land. I’ll keep dinner warm.
Ma, to KeongDraft · not sent
天冷了，多穿点
It’s cold. Wear more layers.
Don’t leave it at 半句. Say the rest.
Seah Wee Thye, writer-director
Kusu Films and Byleft Productions present
半句再见
Jack Tan · Yeo Yann Yann · Shane Pow
director of photography Colm Whelan executive producer Ong Kuo Sin produced by Charlyn Ng · Yeo Yann Yann written and directed by Seah Wee Thye
Family drama · Mandarin, English, Estonian · Golden Horse FPP 2026 · In cinemas 2027
Concept frames by NIR. All imagery here is AI-generated concept art made before production, for illustration only, and is not final film imagery. Classification pending.