Wadjda

Wadjda (2013)

Rated PG 98 min - Drama
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...

Directors: Haifaa Al-Mansour

Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd, and Sultan Al Assaf

Release Date: September 13, 2013

3 Movie Reviews
  • olimpia5223
    olimpia5223over 5 years55 popcorn
    Watched in social Studies class. Awake movie about school it's in Saudi Arabia. Is not in English but there are subtitles
    • Gnougnoualmost 8 years
      Good movie!
      • birda
        birdaover 11 years
        It sounds interesting