Rajee Samarasinghe

Rajee Samarasinghe (b. 1988) is an award-winning filmmaker born and raised in Sri Lanka. His work tackles contemporary sociopolitical conditions in Sri Lanka through the scope of his own identity and the deconstruction of ethnographic practices. Rajee received his BFA from the University of California San Diego in 2010 and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2016. He is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," inspired by his childhood experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war—the project received a Sundance Documentary Fund grant. Rajee's work has been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, REDCAT, Media City Film Festival, Message to Man, Havana Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, & Chicago Underground Film Festival, among many others. He's received the "Film House Award for visionary filmmaking" at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, an "Audience Award" at CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, and a "Jury Award" at the Sydney Underground Film Festival.

• 

  everyday star

  Cinematography

• 

  Sixteen Thousand Dollars

  Assistant Camera

• You're a Shadow

  Director

• 

  the past

  Director

• 

  Untitled

  Screenplay

• 

  Foreign Quarters

  Director

• 

  Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

  Director

• 

  And I Arise (Reprise)

  Director

• 

  A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth

  Director

• 

  The Eyes of Summer

  Director

• 2026A Flower Falling Back Into the EarthDirector
• 2025And I Arise (Reprise)Director
• 2025You're a ShadowDirector
• 2025Your Touch Makes Others InvisibleDirector
• 2023Lotus-Eyed GirlDirector
• 2022StrangersDirector
• 2021everyday starCinematography
• 2021the pastDirector
• 2021Show Me Other PlacesDirector
• 2021Misery Next TimeDirector
• 2020Imitation of LifeDirector
• 2020Sixteen Thousand DollarsAssistant Camera
• 2020The Eyes of SummerDirector
• 2019UntitledScreenplay
• 2018Foreign QuartersDirector
• 2018The Exile (Pituvahalaya)Director
• 2017The Spectre Watches Over HerDirector
• 2016If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to HomeDirector
• 2015black widow summer setDirector
• 2014Untitled (Horse)Director
• 2014The Queen of MaterialDirector