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In this mesmerizing documentary from co-directors Jamshid Mojaddadi and Anson Hartford, families, photographers, and celebrities alike from across Iran flock to the Mashhad Zoo for the main attraction: the close bond between a Bengal tiger named Maya, and Mohsen, the taxidermist-turned-zookeeper who raised her from birth. Feeding, petting, and play-fighting are par for the course in this tiger’s enclosure. But Maya, for her part, has never tasted freedom. That is, until Mohsen takes her out of the zoo for a feature film shoot and unleashes her on open fields by the Caspian Sea—home, sixty years prior, to the now-extinct Caspian tiger. As Maya’s world breaks open, her latent instincts awaken, and the close ties between tiger and trainer begin to unravel.
A true, modern-day story that unfolds with all the twists, turns, and pathos of a timeless fable, this intimate and empathetic documentary brings us up close and personal with both its animal and human subjects, underlining the troubling power dynamics that have existed between humans and animals since the dawn of domestication.
Farsi with English subtitles
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