Following the hot off the press news that Mohammed Nasheed has been ousted as President of The Maldives in a military coup, Dogwoof brings you the astonishing and timely new feature documentary The Island President.

The Maldives is a country like no other, a Shangri-la of breathtakingly beautiful turquoise reefs, beaches, and palm trees, it is composed of 1200 coral islands off of the Indian sub-continent, of which 200 are inhabited. But this amazing country is in danger of disappearing.

President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives is a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced – the survival of his country and everyone in it.

After bringing democracy to the Maldives following thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level.

The Island President captures Nasheed’s first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly.

Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies – leveraging the Maldives’ underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations.

When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.

The Island President is released 30th March