In human terms, this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) has just reached voting age. Politics may be the subjects of some SF IndieFest offerings. “Chuck Norris vs. Communism” suggests how black market VHS tapes of Hollywood action films helped topple Romania’s 1980s Communist dictatorship. “Preoccupied” tells of a pair of investment bankers who counter-protest a certain Zucotti Park-inhabiting group with “Occupy Occupy Wall Street.”
But SF IndieFest’s main agenda from February 11 to 25 will be promoting intriguing films which can’t be easily categorized. Such Mission District venues as the venerable Roxie Theater and the new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will act as magnets for adventurous cinephiles.

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