Wadjda (2012)
Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself...
Movie Information
Starring: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf
Produced by: Andreas Wodraschke, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul, Lutz Reitemeier, Max Richter
Genre: Drama
Original Runtime: 98 minutes
Release Date: 8/31/2012
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10 by 263 users