On Yemen’s remote Socotra Island, director Ivan Olita meets Abdullah—one of the last true cave dwellers. Filmed along the island’s stark UNESCO-protected coastline, Man of the Cave traces a life caught between past and present.
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Here, ancestral routines persist with quiet resilience, even as the pull of digital fame begins to intrude. Amid Socotra’s otherworldly Dragon Blood Trees, the film lingers in paradox—between seclusion and visibility, the real and the imagined.
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Premiering on NOWNESS, Man of the Cave is an intimate portrait of identity in transition, where living off the grid no longer guarantees life out of sight.