Starring: Kit Zauhar, Scott Albrecht, Tiye Amenechi, Isabelle Barbier, Mae Claire, Jackson Crook
NoBudge Presents is a new series of feature films made by young and emerging filmmakers with limited budgets and distinct visions. For our third screening, we’re happy to present Actual People, the debut film of writer/director/actor, Kit Zauhar — one of our favorite micro-budget features from the last couple of years. Screening beforehand is Semen Retention for a Better Tomorrow, a striking stop-motion animated short from Alexandra Neuman. Both filmmakers will be present.
Actual People: In her final week of college, a young woman goes to great lengths to win the affections of a boy from Philadelphia and ends up confronting escalating anxieties about her love life, family and future. Written and directed by Kit Zauhar. Presented by NoBudge and Factory 25. Q&A following with Zauhar and NoBudge programmer, Kentucker Audley. (RT: 84 min)
Semen Retention for a Better Tomorrow: Motivated by the causal relationship between patriarchal domination and the climate crisis, the film integrates climate science, ecofeminism and tantric alchemy into a speculative ethos for bodily and planetary healing. Directed by Alexandra Neuman. (RT: 6 min)
Starring: Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Cynthia Talmadge, Olivier Sherman
Sunday screening followed by Q&A with Prashanth Kamalakanthan, moderated by filmmaker Graham Mason; co-presented with NoBudge
Kallia and Ram have just begun their first vacation as a couple, and they’re already bickering. Though a mysterious new illness is on the brink of exploding into a pandemic, and despite Ram’s protestations, Kallia insists that they are going to have a fun week in New York City. Within hours of their arrival, a nation-wide lockdown is announced, ruining their plans. Over the course of their stay, they descend into a toxic pattern of jealousy and codependency. Is their childish behavior simply the result of cabin fever, or is it something more?
Starring: Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tetsuro Sagawa, Gorô Naya, Toshiko Fujita, Reiko Muto, Kumiko Takizawa
A man hires superhumans to eliminate brutal Golgo, the paid assassin who killed his son.
Starring: Tôru Furuya, Shuichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Maria Kawamura
The final battle between Char Aznable and Amuro Ray.
Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shotaro Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto, Keiji Fujiwara, Taiten Kusunoki
A hero named Cloud (Takahiro Sakurai) must fight a new evil as a mysterious disease affects mankind in a devastated city.
Starring: Syugo Nakamura, Jun Kasama, Shinichiro Kamio, Subaru Kimura, Kenta Miyake, Maaya Sakamoto
Shohoku’s “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota had a brother who was three years older. Following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player from a young age, Ryota also became addicted to basketball. In his second year of high school, Ryota plays with the Shohoku High School basketball team along with Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, and Mitsui as they take the stage at the Inter-High School National Championship. And now, they are on the brink of challenging the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School.
Starring: Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, Ewa Strömberg, Heidrun Kussin
Linda Westinghouse (Ewa Stroemberg) is an American living in Istanbul. After having a recurring dream in which she is seduced by a gorgeous vampire, Linda is sent to a small island for her work. There, she meets and is actually seduced by Countess Nadine (Soledad Miranda), a dark, beautiful nightclub owner whom she immediately recognizes as the seductress from her dreams. When the conniving Dr. Seward (Dennis Price) learns of this, he contacts Linda, hoping to use her to become undead himself.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Ben Miles, Tahar Rahim, Ludivine Sagnier
Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen Henderson, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård
Dune: Part Two will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
Live Nude Girls Unite! is a fierce and funny first person documentary about a group of strippers who win the only union of exotic dancers in the United States. Stripper/Comedian Julia Query takes the audience on a turbulent journey beginning with her decision to leave graduate school and start stripping through the victory with the union, stopping along the way to tell her Jewish mother.
