In Gora and Towards the horizon – Greenland win the polls at 11th BOFF

Eleventh edition of outdoor film in Bovec, Slovenia, managed to fill up the large hall of Bovec Cultural center with its 26 films and many interesting guests. The public voted for the bus adventure of skiers and snowboarders across the Balkans and Greenland crossing by Podgornik and Kostelić.

The eleventh edition of BOFF (Bovec Outdoor Film Festival) ended late Saturday night after Thursday's lectures in Stergulc House and two days of screenings in Bovec Cultural Center.

The public choice awards and titles of best film went to French film In Gora for international and Towards the Horizon – Greenland for Slovenian films.

The attendance was already good in Stergulc House hall on Thursday for lectures by mountaineer and painter Danilo Cedilnik – Den, Swiss artist and skier Simon Charrière and ski adventurer Aljaž Verdev. The organizers were happy with Friday's turnout in Cultural Center theater. Last screenings of the night were two films with Austrian mountaineer David Lama, followed by a talk with Lama himself, and Slovenian film Last Ice Hunters by Jure Breceljnik and Rožle Bregar. But before that Natalija Gros conducted an interview with her older climbing colleague Martina Čufar-Potard, one of the female climbers featured in the French film Voies féminines.

Saturday brought record crowds in the 11-year history of the festival. There were some 450 people in the theater for the prime-time films which ended with Towards the Horizon – Greenland and a chat with expedition members Miha Podgornik (also the author) and Ivica Kostelić.

»We are very happy with the turnout« said festival director Jan Maček. »It is a confirmation of our selection and our guests and of course of our eleven years of work. It was also a good date this year with final day on Saturday, a day before New Year’s Eve, and Bovec is also full of skiers because of good conditions on Kanin mountain«