05/01/2026
Thursday, May 7
7PM Doors, 7:30PM Screening
$10
We’re excited to welcome filmmaker and Guggenheim fellow Rajee Samarasinghe back to Shadow Kitchen for a screening of his feature Your Touch Makes Others Invisible (winner of the 2026 “Truer Than Fiction” Independent Spirit Award), alongside the LA premiere of his new short A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth. Rajee will be present for a conversation following the films!
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible
2025, 70 min.
A Flower Falling Back Into the Earth
2026, 8 min.
Rajee Samarasinghe is a filmmaker born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He received his BFA from UC San Diego and his MFA from CalArts. He recently completed his debut feature film, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, which has received support from the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, Berlinale Talents’ Doc Station, Field of Vision, & True/False Film Festival’s PRISM program, and had its world premiere at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, Samarasinghe was also awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2023, a Yaddo Residency in 2024, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025. He has had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA - Modern Mondays), the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, and the Los Angeles Filmforum (2220 Arts), among others.
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