Malala Yousafzai shares a truly inspirational bond with father

The director of a new film on Malala Yousafzai was struck by the incredible bond between the Nobel Prize winner and her father, writes Martyn Palmer

FOR director Davis Guggenheim, He Named Me Malala is a universal story about a father and his daughter — a remarkable young woman who had the courage to speak out even when her life was threatened.

He Named Me Malala is an intimate, compelling portrait of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban in her native Pakistan when returning home on a school bus in October 2012.“For me, the most compelling part is this father-daughter story. I immediately walked in and said, ‘What it needs to be is not a local story. It needs to be a universal story.’