WADJDA
synopsis
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 fi ght 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...
international title: | Wadjda |
original title: | Wadjda |
country: | Saudi Arabia, Germany |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Haifaa Al Mansour |
film run: | 97' |
release date: | IS 29/11/2012, IT 06/12/2012, BE 06/02/2013, FR 06/02/2013, SE 08/03/2013, NL 16/05/2013, PL 07/06/2013, ES 28/06/2013, UK 19/07/2013, DE 15/08/2013 |
screenplay: | Haifaa Al Mansour |
cast: | Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd Kamel, Sultan Al Assaf |
cinematography by: | Lutz Reitemeier |
film editing: | Andreas Wodraschke |
art director: | Thomas Molt |
costumes designer: | Peter Pohl |
producer: | Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul |
co-producer: | Amr Alkahtani |
production: | Razor Film Produktion, Highlook Communications Group/Saudi Arabia |
distributor: | Academy Two, Pretty Pictures, Alternative Films, Wanda Visión, Soda Pictures, Koch Media Gmbh |