The Maldivian Film Industry: A Small but Resilient Cinema.
The Maldivian film industry, often referred to as Dhivehi cinema, is a young and relatively small film sector based primarily in Malé, the capital of the Maldives. Operating in one of the world’s most geographically dispersed and tourism-dependent nations, it has grown from modest beginnings in the late 1970s into a melodramatic and increasingly experimental…

