Indie films star at Oakland Underground Film Festival

Still from Stacy Peralta's documentary "Bones Brigade," which screens on Thursday as part of the Oakland Underground FIlm Festival. Courtesy OUFF.

This weekend’s Oakland Underground Film Festival (OUFF) showcases local, independent films and new international works. The four-day festival begins Thursday at the Grand Lake Theater and continues at two other venues throughout the weekend. About 60 films will be screened, a mix of shorts, features and documentaries.

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Underground Film Festival kicks off with movies, performance, food

The big screen

Organic tofu burritos, newly smoked sausages, cold beer and popcorn—the vendors were not serving these at a famers’ market, but at the second night of the Oakland Underground Film Festival, which on Friday turned into a combination of live music, improvised video projection and outdoor film screenings at the Linden Street Brewery.

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