DAVIS Guggenheim’s documentary (in 2006, his “An Inconvenient Truth” delivered Al Gore speaking persuasively about global warming) is a gentle, sweet observation of the 17-year-old Pakistani girl who in 2014, together with an Indian girl of similar age, received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Malala Yousafzai’s family owns schools in Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had, at times, banned girls from attending school. Malala should have died on October 9, 2012 when a Taliban bullet struck her head. Guggenheim’s film contains archival footage of her resuscitation in British hospitals. Those events have their place in history. What’s now important is what’s happening since her rehabilitation. It’s heart-warming and encouraging.

The film introduces us to Malala’s loving and supporting family in passages inviting us to conjecture about the between-the-lines meaning of whatever parable awaits.

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