Rajee Samarasinghe
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 12, 1988
- Birthplace
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
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.
Filmography
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A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth 2026
Director
And I Arise (Reprise) 2025
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
You're a Shadow 2025
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Production Design, Sound Designer
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible 2025
Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
Lotus-Eyed Girl 2023
Director
Strangers 2022
Director, Writer
everyday star 2021
Special Effects, Writer, Producer, Production Design, Editor, Cinematography, Director
Misery Next Time 2021
Director
the past 2021
Director
Show Me Other Places 2021
Director
Imitation of Life 2020
Director
The Eyes of Summer 2020
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer, Original Music Composer, Director of Photography
Untitled 2019
Screenplay, Director
Foreign Quarters 2018
Director
The Exile (Pituvahalaya) 2018
Director
The Spectre Watches Over Her 2017
Director
If I Were Any Further Away I'd Be Closer to Home 2016
Director
black widow summer set 2015
Director
The Queen of Material 2014
Director
Untitled (Horse) 2014
Director
Sixteen Thousand Dollars 2020
Assistant Camera
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