Wadjda

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 s 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 s bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself. At first, Wadjda's mother is too preoccupied with convincing her husband not to take a second wife to realize what's going on. And soon enough Wadjda'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 Quran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself to the memorization and recitation of Quranic verses, and her teachers begin to Wadjda as a model pious girl. The competition isn'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. Written by Razor Film Produktion GmbH Wadjda is a 2012 Arabic-language Comedy Drama motion picture featuring Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdulrahman Al-guhani, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf and Vincent Wager. Razor Film Produktion GmbH in association with Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Rotana TV and Highlook Communications Group. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul. The motion picture is written and directed by Haifaa Al-mansour. Koch Media acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Wadjda was released on 29th November 2012 and takes a screen time of 98 minutes. The film made a box office gross of $14 million. Cinematography was done by Lutz Reitemeier and editing by Andreas Wodraschke. The music was composed by Max Richter.