Cafè Rezistance
2025 · 6m · Georgia
Directed by Levan Birkadze
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A short film produced through the Cinemadamare program.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A Cinemadamare program film about the filmmaking process itself, made by a guy who stars in and edits his own work in five days — the self-reflexive comments thread confirms it's cute. Cute isn't enough.
Films born from intensive Cinemadamare workshops are by definition apprentice work, and the page reveals an affectionate director-actor-editor solo turn rather than a major statement. Charming in scale; modest in stakes.
5:47 self-directed/edited/starring piece shot on Cinemadamare — a program where you make a film in days, which is the unusual element doing real work here. Comments confirm it lands as a wry filmmaker self-portrait ('this so reminds of my filmmaking process'); a modest charm I can verify from the page conversation.