Malala Yousafzai and family attended a special screening of forthcoming film He Named me Malala in London.

The evening was hosted by Annie Lennox OBE who also introduced the film with Mabel van Oranje from The Malala Fund.

Danny Cohen, Director of BBC, moderated a post-screening discussion with Malala, her father Ziauddin and Mabel.

The film is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

The then 15-year-old (she turned 18 this July) was singled out, along with her father, for advocating for girls’ education, and the attack on her sparked an outcry from supporters around the world. She miraculously survived and is now a leading campaigner for girls’ education globally as co-founder of the Malala Fund.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim shows how Malala, her father Zia and her family are committed to fighting for education for all girls worldwide.

The film gives audiences an inside glimpse into this young girl’s life – from her close relationship with her father, to her impassioned speeches at the UN.

“When I was little, many people would say, ‘Change Malala’s name. It’s a bad name, it means sad.’ "But my father would always say, ‘No, it has another meaning. Bravery’,” the 18-year-old said.

On screen, the teenager is seen at her home in Birmingham, central England, explaining to her father in the family living room how Twitter works.

The film follows her at school, in the streets of New York, at a refugee camp, spreading her optimistic and determined message on the right to education.

The film also shows the months of hospitalisation and reeducation of the girl who wants to become Prime Minister of Pakistan, as well as her close relationship to her father, himself a teacher and staunch defender of the right to education.

“We are one soul in two different bodies,” said Malala in the documentary.

To silence the critics who see her as her father’s mouthpiece, she added: “My father only gave me the name Malalai.

"He didn’t make me Malalai.

"I chose this life.”

'He Named Me Malala' is set to be released in UK cinemas on November 6.