By Janine Dumaguin
This Women’s Month, you can also celebrate women’s achievements through watching films that will inspire you and make you proud as a woman.
With that in mind, here’s a lineup of some films that feature women empowerment. Don’t hold back and press that play button!
1. Hidden Figures (2016)
The biographical drama film best represents the important contributions made by women in spite of being often unheard and unnoticed.
Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), and Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), these three women proved and overcame obstacles to make it possible for future generations of women to be recognized for their achievements regardless of their gender.
2. Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
The romantic drama film is a must watch as it breaks the early tradition where women are being held by the idea that their only role in this world is to marry a man and raise children.
Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), despite being attacked on her beliefs, continues her advocacy and shows her students the life where women can further their education and career along with being wives and mothers.
3. Little Women (2019)
The American coming-of-age period drama film depicts the issue of social restrictions placed on women. “Little Women” also portrays different perspectives of four March sisters–Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy–on what it means to be a woman.
Besides the varying conceptions of four women, they still discover and use their power to pursue life on their own each term.
4. Barber’s Tale (Mga Kuwentong Barbero) (2013)
The Jun Robles Lana film provokes the idea of women being boxed in the conceptions of being voiceless.
Marilou (Eugene Domingo), despite being a woman and doubted by men in cutting their hair, proved that women can do more than what they are accustomed to.
5. Liway (2018)
This film not only best represents women, but also conveys mother’s sacrifices regardless of how painful the decision would be in return.
Liway (Glaiza De Castro) often tells her son stories based on Philippine mythology and folklore in an effort to protect him from the trauma of living as a political prisoner and to provide her son a normal childhood.
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