{"id":7033,"date":"2017-02-07T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T10:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:26:51","slug":"2016-int-womens-film-festival-award-best-animation-the-spirit-of-fishiindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2017\/02\/2016-int-womens-film-festival-award-best-animation-the-spirit-of-fishiindia\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Int. Women\u2019s Film Festival Award: Best Animation \u201cThe Spirit of Fishi\u201d\/India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the closing ceremony of \u201cthe 4th International Women\u2019s Film Festival \u2013 Herat\u201d held in Kabul, Afghanistan on 22 Oct. 2016 the winners of this edition of the festival were announced.<br \/>\nThe animation \u201cThe Spirit of Fishi\u201ddirected by Anjali Nayar from India\u00a0was awarded as the Best animation, \u00a0by the international jury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/animation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7034\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/animation-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/animation-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/animation.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Spirit of Fishi<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: <strong>Anjali Nayar<\/strong>, India<br \/>\nGenre: Animation<br \/>\nDate &amp; Country of Production: 2015, India<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nDuration: 10 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Synopsis: Set against a backdrop of floods in Bihar, Fishi-Ru tells the story of a little girl\u2019s concerns about the people affected by floods. As she tries to find a way to help out, she discovers an abandoned fish in a garbage dump and brings her home. Slowly, she begins to love the fish, but faces a drastic choice due to certain circumstances. In the culmination of her decisions, Ruhi finds her own understanding of the meaning of love, letting go, and of freedom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-11.03.59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7035 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-11.03.59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Director\u2019s Biography and Filmography<\/span><br \/>\nAnjali Nayar <\/b>studied Filmmaking and Animation at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and read English Literature at the University of Delhi. She makes animation and documentary films as an independent artist and has received awards and nominations at film festivals including the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 2016 and CMS Vatavaran 2014. She writes articles, is an illustrator and artist, and teaches foundation courses as a visiting faculty at NID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/152551413\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Watch Animation\u00a0Trailer\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Spirit of Fishi\u201d from India was awarded as the best animation, directed by Anjali Nayar by the international jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,66,11,88,17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-geography","category-international-womens-film-festival","category-issues","category-slider","category-women","category-world","country-afghanistan","country-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}