film

Maya

BFI Doc Society Fund

Producer

Hugh Hartford

Director

Anson Hartford

Director

Jamshid Mojaddadi

 

Production support

 

Daily life at Mashhad Zoo is interrupted when head keeper Mohsen is invited to take Maya, his beloved Bengal tiger, to act in a fiction film in the North of the country. With real life drama, hallucinatory imaginations and stunning imagery of Iran’s great wilderness, the film stands as a fable for our relationship with the natural world.