Teddy is a 15-minute independent drama-thriller released in 2023, directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Akash Sunethkumara. Built almost entirely around a therapy session, it is the most contained and character-driven of the director’s publicly listed titles.
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Synopsis
As published by the filmmakers: Vihara, a Sri Lankan woman in her thirties, sits in therapy and peels back the layers of her marriage, revealing the traumatic events that have had a far deeper impact on her reality than she realises.
The framing device — a single therapeutic conversation used to unpack a history — is a familiar structure in short drama because it lets a small production cover years of story without staging them. Classifying the result as a thriller as well as a drama suggests the film treats that unpacking as a gradual reveal rather than a straight confession.
Key details
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Title | Teddy |
| Year | 2023 |
| Runtime | 15 minutes |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Original language | English |
| Director | Akash Sunethkumara |
| Writer | Akash Sunethkumara |
| Story | Ruwanga Kodituwakku, Sachithra Siriwardhana |
Cast
- Yureni Noshika — Vihara
- Wayne White — Therapist
- Madhushanka Nuwan — Kevin
Three credited roles across fifteen minutes is a deliberately small ensemble, consistent with a film that keeps its action inside one room and one conversation.
A collaborative credit
Unlike the director’s earlier titles, Teddy carries a shared story credit: Ruwanga Kodituwakku and Sachithra Siriwardhana are credited for the story alongside Akash Sunethkumara’s screenplay. That shift from sole authorship toward collaboration is worth noting in a body of work that had previously been written solo — see The Knight Out (2020) and Temporal (2022).
Thematically it also marks a departure. Where the earlier films used genre machinery — a chess duel, a time-travel device — Teddy works without any, relying on performance and disclosure alone.
Where to watch
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