13 May 2019
3 series and movies featuring our favourite fearless girls
They’re courageous and bold and inspiring, facing the world with gusto and guts. These series and movies on Showmax show that girls really do rule the world.
1. Gideonette De La Rey in Meerkat Maantuig (2017)
When young Gideonette’s father is killed in a freak accident, she retreats to a dark place until her mother sends her to live with her grandparents in the Magoebaskloof forest. There, she makes a friend who shows her a new world and helps her overcome her fear when he introduces her to his moonship. This beautiful Afrikaans film with English subtitles has won a number of awards both at home and overseas, including the Kids Award at the 2018 Filem’on: International Children’s Film Festival Brussels and a SAFTA for the Best Achievement in Cinematography: Feature Film. Watch now »
2. Arya Stark in Game of Thrones
HBO’s epic series features many fierce, fearless females, but Arya is among the youngest, and, in Season 8, became the show’s truest hero, since her brave fight against the Night King ensured the survival of the whole of the Seven Kingdoms. Just between us, if we could choose someone to sit on the Iron Throne, we’d pick her, with her sister Sansa coming in a close second. All eight seasons are on Showmax. Watch now »
3. Lila in My Brilliant Friend
This stunning adaptation of Italian author Elena Ferrante’s first Neapolitan novel shows the unfolding of Elena and Lila’s friendship through childhood and teens. Elena’s our narrator, and she’s looking back on her and Lila’s life in the neighbourhood where they grew up, in a working-class part of Naples in the 50s and 60s. She traces the violent, heartbreaking, terrifying and exhilarating moments she shared with her brilliant, brave, completely fearless friend Lila in the years before life took them on different paths. In Italian, with subtitles. Watch now »
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