Maya

Mia Hansen-Løve : 2018

Gabriel is a 30-year-old war correspondent taken hostage and repatriated to Paris after four months of captivity in Syria. He believes he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and on the advice of a psychiatrist, he travels to India to visit his godfather, Monty. Having lived there until the age of seven with his mother – who still lives there and runs an NGO in Mumbai – Gabriel decides to settle in Goa, in a bungalow by the sea, while he renovates a small house in the countryside. He encounters Maya, his godfather's 17-year-old daughter, a student who is travelling between London and Sydney in the middle of her studies, and a relationship gradually begins to stir, despite the decade or so between them. As Gabriel slowly adjusts to safety and society in India, he also reintegrates into normal life – and back into parts of his past that resurface during his trip. Mia Hansen-Løve's feature premiered in Special Presentations at Toronto International Film Festival 2018.