Late Sunday evening in Bovec, the 18th edition of the Bovec Outdoor Film Festival (BOFF) came to a close. The festival features films about nature, outdoor sports, the environment, and more. The "coming of age" edition of the festival began on Friday at Stergulčeva hiša with lectures and discussions about two books. Editor and publicist Žarko Rovšček spoke about selected works by Tone Škarja entitled Iskrì se beseda (The Word Sparks), while Andrej Stritar presented his book Svet je lep (The World is Beautiful) about mountaineering around the world.
 
On Saturday and Sunday, 24 films were screened in the large hall of the Bovec Cultural Center. A total of nearly a thousand viewers attended the screenings. Once again, the audience voted to decide the winners of two awards. The audience award for the best foreign-language film of the festival, presented on behalf of the company Seng, went to the film from the climbing series Reel Rock entitled Riders On The Storm. The audience award for the best Slovenian film, on behalf of Zavarovalnica Generali, was given to the film Drežniška koza in njeni ljudje (The Goat of Drežnica and Her People).
 
More about the award-winning films
Reel Rock: Riders On The Storm, a 28-minute film by Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell, and Nick Rosen, produced in 2025, was shot during an expedition to Riders On The Storm climb on the central tower of the Torres del Paine group in Chilean Patagonia. Siebe Vanhee, a Belgian climber of the younger generation, follows in the footsteps of his two older compatriots and role models, Sean Villanueva and Nicolas Favresse, with the first free ascent. They spent 18 days on the smooth, vertical granite wall – mostly in a snowstorm, as the name of the route suggests. In addition to their extreme feat, viewers were also impressed by the humor with which friends from two generations passed the cold days on the wall.
 
The film Drežniška koza in njeni ljudje (The Drežnica Goat and Its People) by director and producer Marko Kumer Murč delves into the story of breeding an endangered indigenous goat species in the Upper Soča Valley. Small-scale farming, such as goat breeding in the mountains, will never pay off. However, the locals are aware that it would be a great shame to let the Drežnica goat disappear. The film was made on the initiative of Dr. Simon Horvat, a long-time researcher of the Drežnica goat from the Faculty of Biotechnology at the University of Ljubljana, who also wrote the screenplay for the film and acted as a liaison between the locals and the filmmakers. The film has already been shown at the Dokudoc Documentary Film Festival and the Slovenian Film Festival, but it was in Bovec that it had its real, grand, mass premiere in front of the "people of the Drežnica goat."

As always, BOFF came alive outside the cinema on sunny days, on the trails around Bovec, in caves, and even in the cold Soča River.
 
The film Drežniška koza in njeni ljudje (The Drežnica Goat and Her People) will be back on the big screen on January 14 in Tolmin.
 
The main sponsor of the festival is the Soča Valley Tourism, the silver sponsor is Generali Insurance, and the bronze sponsor is Soške elektrarne Nova Gorica (SENG).