Maya

Overview

Daily life at Iran’s second biggest zoo is interrupted when Mohsen, the head keeper, takes Maya, his 4 year old Bengal tiger, to perform in a fiction film in the north of the country by the Caspian Sea which was once home to the now extinct caspian tiger. In between filming, Mohsen lets Maya off the leash and allows her to roam in this sparsely populated landscape – she is the first ‘free’ tiger in Iran in over 60 years. But instead of the perfect experience of the wild that Mohsen hopes it to be, the trip kickstarts a series of events that mark the end of Mohsen and Maya’s relationship and in the process reveals a much darker and more complex side to Mohsen and the Zoo in which Maya and the other animals are kept.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 29, 2020

Original language

Persian

Spoken languages

Persian

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Doc Society,Banyak Films

Director

Anson Hartford,Jamshid Mojaddadi

Writer

Anson Hartford,Hugh Hartford

Producer

Hugh Hartford

Cinematography

Reza Jafarzadeh,Majid Tahermanesh

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt11199704