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Film Festival Spotlight: 'The Age of Goodbyes'

Updated 2026-09-18 10:55 UTC 1 source Neutral

'The Age of Goodbyes' is a new film at the Toronto Film Festival that explores the lives of Malaysian Chinese families marked by historical curses and personal tragedies. The movie delves into the complex interplay between ordinary people and their past.

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Edmund Yeo and Vivian Sung Chase Malaysia’s Buried Past in Toronto Title ‘The Age of Goodbyes’: ‘Ordinary People Living Inside History’

“The Age of Goodbyes” begins, in more ways than one, with a curse. In Li Zi Shu’s sprawling Malaysian Chinese novel, a family is said to be marked by early death; in Edmund Yeo’s screen adaptation, in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto Film Festival, that curse

2026-09-18 10:37 UTC