Cash On Delivery
2023 · 21m · Sri Lanka
Directed by Udara Wijesinghe
A young man wrestles with fear, guilt, and prejudice rooted in a past incident involving his partner and an apple, as a delivery encounter unspools through suspenseful twists and turns. The film weaves memory and the present into a tense Sinhala-language drama.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A cash-on-delivery transaction as a vessel for intimate guilt and prejudice—most scouts would've walked past this premise, but Wijesinghe makes the mundane absolutely unbearable, folding memory into real-time dread in ways that actively resist comfort.
Wijesinghe situates this psychological drama within a lineage of Sri Lankan art cinema that privileges emotional archaeology over exposition, the editing rhythm between past and present a learned conversation with formal restraint.
The decision to let the delivery itself become the pressure cooker—not flashy, just sustained—means everything hinges on performance and the sound design of small moments, and it's in those unglamorous choices that the film finds its real power.
Festivals
- Nitiin International Film Festival 2023, Best Asian Short Film
- Agenda 14 Sri Lanka 2023