Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Directing

Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British-Moroccan filmmaker based in New York, working as an Emmy Award-winning director and Emmy-nominated editor. She co-directed Call Me Kuchu (2012), which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary, and Thank You for Playing (2015), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. As an editor, her credits include Through the Night (2020), a New York Times and Hollywood Reporter Critics' Pick, Seeds (2025), and the Oscar-shortlisted UNION (2024) — both Seeds and UNION went on to win awards at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and a graduate of Cambridge Un…

Known for

The New Screen Savers poster
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The New Screen Savers is a variety show for tech. The show stars Leo Laporte and is co-hosted by Megan Morrone, Jason Howell, Fr. Robert Ballecer, and Bryan Burnett. Viewers get live tech help, interesting guests, insights into the latest innovations, products and trends, plus lots of fun things thrown in, too. There will also be special guest co-host appearances from Patrick Norton, Kate Botello, Kevin Rose, Martin Sargent, and more.

The New Screen Savers

2015

Call Me Kuchu poster
5.9

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Call Me Kuchu

2012

Thank You for Playing poster
7.3

For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease. Following the family through the creation of the game and the day-to-day realities of Joel’s treatment, David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall create a moving testament to the joy and heartbreak of raising a terminally ill child.

Thank You for Playing

2015

Games You Can't Win poster
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Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most intimate or traumatic personal experiences through artful, documentary-style video games. Using a combination of intimate verité footage and video capture from the games, the short film tells the stories of three developer and the personal experiences that inspired their game.

Games You Can't Win

2016

Amyra León: Strange Grace poster
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A portrait of Amyra León, the musician, poet, author and activist who channels deeply personal experiences of pain and healing into raw, majestic, and often cathartic performances that celebrate love, Blackness and womanhood.

Amyra León: Strange Grace

2020

Video Visit poster
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Each week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected.

Video Visit

2021

Series credits

Behind the camera

Call Me Kuchu poster
5.9

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Call Me Kuchu

2012

Call Me Kuchu poster
5.9

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Call Me Kuchu

2012

Call Me Kuchu poster
5.9

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Call Me Kuchu

2012

Thank You for Playing poster
7.3

For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease. Following the family through the creation of the game and the day-to-day realities of Joel’s treatment, David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall create a moving testament to the joy and heartbreak of raising a terminally ill child.

Thank You for Playing

2015

Games You Can't Win poster
NR

Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most intimate or traumatic personal experiences through artful, documentary-style video games. Using a combination of intimate verité footage and video capture from the games, the short film tells the stories of three developer and the personal experiences that inspired their game.

Games You Can't Win

2016

Amyra León: Strange Grace poster
NR

A portrait of Amyra León, the musician, poet, author and activist who channels deeply personal experiences of pain and healing into raw, majestic, and often cathartic performances that celebrate love, Blackness and womanhood.

Amyra León: Strange Grace

2020

Video Visit poster
NR

Each week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected.

Video Visit

2021