"Given in Exchange" received an award for the best short at GZDOC 2013

Documentary film "Given in exchange" by Sofia Geveiler received award for the Best short film at the 2013 Guandzhou International Film Festival in China.

The Golden Kapok Award Ceremony of GZDOC 2013 was held on December 11, 2013

“Golden Kapok Award” is two years old that its influence is increasing in the field and society. In 2012, it was launched by GZDOC with intention to become an authoritative and symbolic award for the documentary.

This year, GZDOC has received 705 films to complete for excellence rating, including 309 domestic and 396 foreign films. At the Festival, the Organizing Committee has intensified cooperation with national mainstream media and institutions and invited Documentary Film Working Committee of China Radio and Television Associationas the supporting academic authority to lead program appraisal work.

 Jury Comments on the film:
"Given in Exchange achieves to combine different images of various content and meaning as cold modern house fronts, table dance workplaces with people statements to contrast remorses of a young mother and reinforce the emotional impact of his remarkable documentary on loneliness, rejection and mothers love. We find simultaneously a call to find the lost son through prayers of various religions and spirituality."

Given in Exchange | Данный взамен
28 min, Russia, 2013

This documentary follows the story of a mother's love: from an empty heart to a tragedy that has changed her, to creation and love, from rejecting her own son to adopting someone else's child and accepting him as her own.