Malala Yousafzai
July 12, 1997 · 29 years old
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She resides in the UK and is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the loca…
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4 titles
Joyland
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
He Named Me Malala
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai for speaking out on girls' education, followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
The Last of the Sea Women
On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fights to save their vanishing culture from looming threats.
Bread & Roses
Capturing the experiences of Afghanistan's women under the Taliban since they took control of Kabul.