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Wadjda (2012)
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Original name: Das Mädchen Wadjda
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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...
Style:
talky, stylized, touching, sincere, serious, realistic, inspirational, social, educational, islamic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
childhood, islam, bicycle, gender, children, coming of age, muslim girl, hijab, feminist, dream, friendship, troublemaker, cycling, polygamy, family relations, teacher, teachers and students, parents and children, fighting the system, traditional versus modern, life is a bitch, discrimination, everyday life, rebelliousness, against the rules ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
saudi arabia, middle east, maghreb, japan, iran
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