Wadjda 2012 DVD
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 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 Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale that she wants desperately so she can race her friend Abdullah But Wadjda&39;s mother won&39;t allow it fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl&39;s virtue So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself At first Wadjda&39;s mother is too preoccupied with convincing her husband not to take a second wife to realize what&39;s going on And soon enough Wadjda&39;s plans are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Koranic verses and her teachers begin to see Wadjda as a model pious girl The competition isn&39;t going to be easy especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda but she refuses to give in She is determined to continue fighting for her dreams Actors Waad Mohammed Reem Abdullah Abdullrahman Al Gohani Ahd & Sultan Al Assaf Director Haifaa Al-Mansour Certificate PG Year 2012 Languages Arabic Subtitles English Duration 1 hour and 37 minutes (approx)
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