Shoestring budget movies

Was catching up with the Radio 4 film programme podcasts which, incidentally, are very good if you are interested in non-mainstream film, and there was an interview with first time director Peter Strickland who made the film Katalin Varga.
It's been on the fringes of my films-to-see radar but I confess not a priority until listening to the interview. What intrigued me is the fact that it is a first film, made on a tiny budget in Romanian and Hungarian.
Strickland inherited £40,000 from a relative and rather than do something sensible like buy a house decided to realise a dream and make a film. But not only did he make the film, a challenge in itself, but he chose to make it in Romania and in languages he doesn't speak. As he found out Romanian and Hungarian are not very commercial languages to shoot a film in and once it was finished he really struggled to get someone to show it. He even starting thinking 'oh well at least I got to learn a bit of Romanian'.
It was eventually picked up and showcased at this year's Berlin film festival and has made it to the Curzon in London.
I confess I find the story of how it was made fascinating and want to go and see it this weekend. A colleague saw it at the weekend and really enjoyed it (and she was sat behind Ben Whishaw, can you believe that).
It's interesting that it is potentially the second shoe-string budget film I've seen in month that has actually been very good (Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee being the other) and proves that you don't necessarily need millions to make good movies.