The Island President

What’s fascinating and frustrating about The Island President is how it reveals international politics to be even more polarized and mired in bureaucracy than local politics.

A fascinating insight into the disparity between rich and poor, and powerful nations and their less muscle-flexing neighbours.

Could Nasheed be the political Prospero to save the island – and the planet?

Like the tireless president the film portrays, Shenk's doc refuses to simply sound alarmist bells, even when it makes evident the near impossibility of the task at hand...

With unprecedented access, documentarian Jon Shenk (Lost Boys of Sudan) captures the ambitious first year of Nasheed’s presidency...