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Wadjda

Wadjda
Score: 8 / 10
Released: October 4, 2013
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Producer: Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
Studio: Mongrel Media
Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Genre: Drama
Length: 98 minutes

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Wadjda Synopsis

Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Her world is very conservative, based on traditional values. However, the fun-loving, boundary-pushing young girl doesn’t let that stop her.

After getting in a fight with a neighborhood boy—whom she should not have been playing with in the first place—Wadjda spots a beautiful green bike for sale. Her mother refuses to buy her the bike because their culture sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Wadjda does not take "no" for an answer and decides to try and raise the money to purchase the bike on her own.

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