Wadjda

A FILM BY Haifaa Al-Mansour

A winning, handsomely crafted story with a charismatic lead guaranteed to charm international auds.

- Jay Weissburg, Variety

It's a stunningly assured debut, a slyly subversive delight.

- Dana Stevens, Slate

Un miracle vient de se produire, la naissance du premier film d'Arabie saoudite. Un film de femme qui est aussi un chef-d'oeuvre. Impérativement à voir!

- L'Humanité

Cette ode à la liberté possède un souffle extraordinaire. C'est un excellent film, de ceux qui nous ouvre une fenêtre sur le monde

- 20 minutes

Synopsis

WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. 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.