Das Mädchen Wadjda

Release date: 2013-02-05
Runtime: 98
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia

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...

Director: Haifaa al-Mansour

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd Kamel, Sultan Al Assaf, Dana Abdullilah, Rehab Ahmed, Rafa Al Sanea, Sara Aljaber, Noura Faisal