Credits

Director: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Synopsis

Sri Lanka endures one of the world’s highest rates of enforced disappearances, disproportionately affecting Tamils. Shot clandestinely with affected communities in a still-militarized region, the film fuses investigative documentary with allegorical magic realism. Nonfiction inquiry is threaded through a fictional tale: a mother searching for a son seized by a supernatural force haunting her village – an echo of the 26-year civil war’s absences. Together, these strands form a lyrical, communal act of witness.

Biography

Rajee Samarasinghe is an award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker. He holds a BFA (UC San Diego) and MFA (CalArts). His debut feature, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible – supported by Sundance DFP, Berlinale Talents Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False PRISM – world-premiered at IFFR 2025. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces” (2020), presented a MoMA (Modern Mondays) solo show in 2021, and later received MacDowell (2023), Yaddo (2024) and Guggenheim (2025) fellowships. His work has screened widely, including at IFFR Tiger Shorts, New Directors/New Films, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, BFI London, FIDMarseille, Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM, Melbourne, Vancouver, BlackStar and more.