YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE

Director: RAJI SAMARASINGHE

Time: 70’

Year of Production: 2025

 

* In collaboration with DokuFest Film Festival

 

Synopsis

A Tamil woman loses her son to a supernatural entity plaguing her community in a war-torn village in Northern Sri Lanka and intertwining with her journey are harrowing real-life testimonies with women whose family members vanished at the hands of military forces during the civil war.

Biography

 

Rajee Samarasinghe is a filmmaker born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He received his BFA from UCSD and his MFA from CalArts. Samarasinghe recently completed his debut feature film, “Your Touch Makes Others Invisible,” which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka. The project has received support from the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, Berlinale Talents’ Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s PRISM program.