Screening
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Film Information
Year: 2025
Duration: 70
Language: VOSE/VOSC
Genre: Docufiction
Synopsis
Prominent among the many unspeakable atrocities marking the 26-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka is the phenomenon of enforced disappearances at the hands of military forces. Estimates suggest that up to 100,000 people, mostly members of the minority Tamil community, may have disappeared since the eighties. Through a unique synthesis of interviews, news clips and re-enactments, this docufiction reflects on this harrowing history. It centers in a Tamil woman whose son has vanished, possibly taken by a supernatural force haunting her war-torn community. Her story is interwoven with firsthand testimonies from women who continue to search for their disappeared loved ones.
Director
Rajee Samarasinghe (1988) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker and visual artist born and raised during the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later moved to the United States where he is currently based. His work explores sociopolitical conditions in Sri Lanka, often through the lens of his own identity and deconstruction of ethnographic and documentary practices. He holds a BFA from the University of California San Diego and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He has been recognized internationally, being named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020. His debut feature film, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (2025), which has received support from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Berlinale Talents, was selected for the Bright Future Section in the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025.
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