The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) celebrated domestic cinema at the 11^th edition of the Sun in a Net awards ceremony. Due to the pandemic, the SFTA merged the films from the years 2020 and 2021 into this year's edition while commemorating the centenary of Slovak cinema. The ongoing war in Ukraine has also been a topic reflected throughout the ceremony which the SFTA's president Wanda Adamík Hrycová addressed in her opening statement, saying “the horror perpetrated by Russia beyond our borders will drive many more unhappy people out of their homes. However, we have proven that we can help in an emergency. Please, let's persist.”

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Ivan Ostrochovský's period drama Servants [+leggi anche:
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Ivan Ostrochovský's own sophomore fiction feature Servants won 3 awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Costumes. The documentary portrait about Slovak reporter and journalist Andrej Bán Paradise on Earth [+leggi anche:
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Here is the full list of winners:

Best Film
107 Mothers [+leggi anche:
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Best Documentary
Paradise on Earth [+leggi anche:
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Best Animated Film
Once There Was a Sea... - Joanna Kozuch (Slovakia/Poland)

Best Director
Peter Kerekes – 107 Mothers

Best Script
Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes – 107 Mothers

Best Cinematography
Juraj Chlpík – Servants [+leggi anche:
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Best Editing
Jan Daňhel, Martin Malo, Maroš Šlapeta - Servants

Best Sound
Olaf Mehl, Juraj Baláž – The Auschwitz Report [+leggi anche:
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Best Music
Jonatán Pastirčák - Lines [+leggi anche:
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Best Costumes
Katarína Hollá - Servants

Best Make-Up
Martin Jankovič, Katarína Horská – The Man with Hare Ears [+leggi anche:
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Best Actress
Irina Kirjazeva – 107 Mothers

Best Supporting Actress
Zuzana Kronerová – The Man with Hare Ears

Best Actor
Miroslav Krobot – The Man with Hare Ears

Best Supporting Actor
Oldřich Kaiser – The Man with Hare Ears

Extraordinary contribution to audiovisual culture
Emília Vášáryová, Jelena Paštéková

Audience Award
Perfect Strangers - Zuzana Marianková (Slovakia/Czech Republic)