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By Dot L (50) on 14 Apr 2012

Nasheed shovels sand against the tide and never gives up hope…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 11 Apr 2012

A socially engaged documentary with more heart than head, this slice of boosterism focusing on the exiled Maldives president achieves unexpected…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Apr 2012

Nasheed is no saint, and if he had remained in office, maybe, as with so many others, he would have capitulated to politics as usual…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Apr 2012

The Island Presidentis heartening and unsettling by turns…

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By Sarah Sluis (47) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 03 Apr 2012

Primary meets environmental documentary. A must-see now that political strife has forced the film's subject, President Mohamed Nasheed, to resign…

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By Derek S (348) on 02 Apr 2012

Hero's journey. Documentary of a small man from a small nation, imprisoned, tortured and then elected president in 2008…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 02 Apr 2012

Shenk gets almost unfettered acccess to Nasheed, who is refreshingly honest about the tactics he is employing to get other countries onside…

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By Dannyherrera16 (4) on 01 Apr 2012

The hope that infuses this movie makes it all the more upsetting to walk out of the theater and contemplate a looming disaster that the world's…

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By Phil Contrino (11) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 01 Apr 2012

A gripping new documentary that's essential viewing for anybody who believes that the impact of global warming is tomorrow's problem…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 31 Mar 2012

A message in favor of the environment from someone who really means it…

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By Walter M (1,360) on 31 Mar 2012

In the simultaneously inspiring and harrowing documentary The Island President, Mohamed Nasheed was elected to the presidency of the Maldives,…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 30 Mar 2012

Nasheed has traveled the world describing the Maldives as the Poland of global warming - meaning, of course, Poland in 1939…

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By Patrick Peters (101) for Empire (3,446) on 30 Mar 2012

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

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Mar 2012

A mostly compelling documentary about that rarest of breeds, an appealing politician…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 29 Mar 2012

The Island President should be commended for offering a stark reminder that, while the world's great nations turned their attentions to economics,…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 29 Mar 2012

Those who learn of his and his country's plight through Shenk's smartly crafted film can't help but sit up and pay attention to the course…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 29 Mar 2012

What just might be the scariest movie of the year doesn't feature skyscraper-crushing robots or species-annihilating bacteria…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Mar 2012

The Island President is a mostly compelling documentary about that rarest of breeds, an appealing politician…

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By Alex Zane (472) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 29 Mar 2012

Shenk would have been better off spending time with the people at risk of flooding rather than filming the diplomats in their suits at the…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 28 Mar 2012

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

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