NoBudge is a movies club that presents a hand-picked selection of new indie movies daily. “One of the best places to sample what’s happening in low-budget cinema worldwide,” says Glenn Kenny of The New York Times. Its mission is to provide a supportive home for emerging indie filmmakers working with limited resources and without major industry connections, and to be a trusted discovery platform helping audiences find their new favorite movies and filmmakers.

The Movies

Tampon
Director Alexandra Neuman present.
A young woman copes with the messiness of womanhood by learning how to use a tampon.
(1 minute)

The Apocalypse Will Blossom
Director Courtney Jines present.
After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a young woman moves across the country to Washington D.C., to start what she hopes will be the next American revolution.
(5 minutes)

Little Brother
Directed by Dominique van Olm.
On the edge of adolescence, Dexter visits his sister for the first time.
(12 minutes)

Pak Anggir
Director Ashleigh Goh present.
Underneath the facade of opulence created by the influx of white, rich tourists, the modest Balinese people exist, detached from this constructed tourist experience.
(10 minutes) 

Two Parts Black
Director Cleon Arrey present.
An exploration of blackness in America.
(6 minutes)

Avocado
Director Lorelei Ramirez present.
A film about a person’s inability to cut an Avocado.
(7 minutes) 

Catlady
Director Max Roux present.
A delusional young woman mourning the loss of her cat receives an unexpected visitor.
(8 minutes)

Cinema Brut
Creators Dustin Waldman, Nicholas Nazmi and Bennett Clarkson present.
Setting out to “make a movie” on the streets of NYC, a man recruits strangers to act alongside him in “movie scenes.”
(12 minutes)

Observatory Blues
Directors Eric Paschal Johnson and Conor Dooley present.
The life story of Fernando Music, a writer born with no hands that becomes famous for a series of books about space and sex.
(20 minutes)

Starring: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian

Deep in the heart of Jakarta’s slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world’s most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it.

When a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building’s lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city’s worst to survive their mission.

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Paul Brannigan

A voluptuous woman of unknown origin combs the highway in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again. Based on the novel by Michael Faber, Under the Skin examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results.

Starring: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse

Paul (Peter Fonda), a director saddened by his failed marriage and unsatisfied with his work, is looking to start over. His friend, the cool, sage-like John (Bruce Dern), suggests that an LSD trip is exactly what Paul needs to get out of his rut. Paul decides to indulge, and experiences visions that are alternately beautiful and terrifying. His hallucinations, which include a carnival populated by dwarfs, bizarrely erotic encounters and even his own death, radically reshape his consciousness.

Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer

After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban ‘starter’ tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

Starring: Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos, Biancamaria D’Amato

Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies in this French psychological thriller that blends eroticism with European slasher movie traditions and a haunted house on the Côte d’Azur. The film’s enigmatic, intimate cinematography builds an atmosphere thick with the pall of evil, as Ana’s visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism — and deeper danger.

Starring: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, William Bassett, Karen Black, Erin Daniels, Walton Goggins, Chris Hardwick

An empty fuel tank and a flat tire lead two couples down a terror-riddled road to the House of 1000 Corpses. House of 1000 Corpses is at its core a story of family – a cast of twisted individuals who, with each slash of a throat or stab thru the chest, add bodies to their sick human menagerie.

Starring: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman

Ivanhoe Martin (Jimmy Cliff) arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, “The Harder They Come,” but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton (Bob Charlton), soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.

Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowski, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau

Originally released in 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo quickly caught the imagination of movie audiences, becoming a landmark in independent film-making. The early screenings at New York’s Elgin Theater sparked the Midnight Movie phenomena, catalyzed by an endorsement from John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and mystic El Topo (played by writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky) tries to defeat sharp-shooting rivals on a bizarre path to allegorical self-awareness and resurrection. As it seeks an alternative to the Hollywood mainstream, El Topo is also the most controversial quasi-Western head trip ever made!

Starring: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Ray Barlow, Susan Bernard

Russ Meyer’s cult favorite follows sadistic go-go dancers Varla, Rosie and Billie as they break free from the nightclub where they perform and race out to the desert to stir up a little mayhem. After karate expert Varla kills an innocent man, the voluptuous trio takes his girlfriend  hostage as they attempt to wheedle a hidden fortune from a misogynistic old man and his muscle-bound, brain-damaged son.