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The film presents the young Pakistani female activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai , who has spoken out for the rights of girls, especially the right to education, since she was very young. The film also recounts how she survived and has become even more eloquent in her quest after being hunted down and shot by a Taliban gunman as part of the organization's violent opposition to girls' education in the Swat Valley in Pakistan.

He named me malala summary

The title refers to the Afghani folk hero Malalai of Maiwand , after whom her father named her. On December 1, , He Named Me Malala was shortlisted with fourteen other documentaries submitted to the 88th Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Feature category, but failed to gain the nomination. Walter F. In March , Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film worldwide excluding French-speaking territories, where StudioCanal would release the film.

The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 4, , and received a theatrical release in the United States on October 2. The site's consensus reads, " He Named Me Malala spotlights a worthy subject, but without the focus her story deserves. It lost to Amy. The official soundtrack to the film, featuring original score composed by Thomas Newman , was released digitally on October 2, and physically on October 30, by Sony Classical.

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