At Bovec Outdoor Film Festival in Bovec, Slovenia the viewers gave their votes to films The Undamaged and The Frenchy.

On last weekend of 2018 the Bovec Cultural Center's 450 seat hall was filled with outdoor sport and film fans who arrived to this alpine town to see the 27 films of 12th edition of BOFF – Bovec Outdoor Film Festival. For the second year in a row the seats were sold out. Together with Friday's lectures in Stergulc House some 800 people visited the festival.

Two prizes were presented: The Undamaged is the »People's Choice« among the Slovenian films and The Frenchy is the best international film according to the viewers.

The Undamaged, the 52-minute film by Rožle Bregar, Matic Oblak and Miha Avguštin, is documenting the Balkan Rivers Tour, an effort by kayakers to protect the rivers from Slovenia to Albania from construction of over 3000 dams. Together with environmentalists and locals they are trying to keep the last free flowing rivers in Europe.

The Frenchy, a 14-minute film by US author Michelle Smith, is showing the active lifestyle of 82-year old French born Jacques Houot who is spending his days cycling, skiing and more in Colorado. After a series of close calls the man is a well of wisdom and wit. No problem!

The festival also hosted a round table debate on kayaking and rafting management on Soča river, lectures by Žiga Humar (canyoning), Aljaž Anderle (ice climbing) and Bogdan Biščak (mountaineer and book author), talks with authors and athletes, an art exhibition, a freeride skiing and snowboarding workshop, a photography workshop...

»Another successful edition, « says festival director Jan Maček. »Not just regarding the screenings, our side events were also a hit. But we are not planning any further expansion of those and for 2019 we'll be concentrating on films, the quality of program, technical quality of screenings and bringing over interesting guests. «

BOFF is supported by Community of Bovec