TY - ADVS AU - Haifaa Al Mansour AU - Haifaa Al Mansour AU - Waad Mohammed AU - Reem Abdullah AU - Abdullrahman Al Gohani TI - Wadjda AV - PN1997 .W335 2012 PY - 2014/// CY - Iceland PB - Razor Film Produktion GmbH, Soda Pictures, Highlook Communications Group N1 - Special features: Commentary with writer/director Haifaa Al Mansour; The making of Wadjda; Director's Guild of America Q&A with Haifaa Al Mansour N2 - From case cover: Wadjda is the story of a yound Saudi girl whose burning desire for a bicycle leads her into bold defiance of her society's restrictive codes of gender and religion. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda see a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so 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. Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself. Although her cunning plans are continuously thwarted, she is determined to continue fighting for her dreams ER -