Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Synopsis

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

Directors' Biography

Rajee Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory, migration, and impermanence. Raised during Sri Lanka’s civil war, he holds a BFA from UC San Diego and an MFA from CalArts, creating films rooted in the search to understand his childhood and its context.