Ishanka Abeysekara Krishantha Mendis Temporal is a 2022 Sri Lankan science fiction short film directed by Akash Sunethkumara.

[2] On a tragic night, a physicist challenges the limits of time travel to save the woman he loves, but soon discovers its inherent dangers are far greater than he expects.

Kalpa is a physicist employed at Tusker Enterprises in the Research and Development Division where he works on a time-travel machine which he tries to make functional.

He misses a night out that his girlfriend Nikita had organized to introduce him to her friends, coinciding with Mallett's Comet flying over the city.

He realizes that he is the figure who hid behind the wall that he saw earlier and that Kalpa only has five minutes in the past before he is pulled back into current time.

The director never loses sight of the film’s strengths, which are the entertaining temporal contradictions that come from leaping back into the recent past, recalling Shane Carruth’s Primer.