WADJDA
When? Wednesday 1st December, 7:30PM
Where? Online via Virtual Screening Room.
How? Once you've paid what you want for your festival pass, you'll need to let us know you'd like the code to this film. We'll tell you exactly how once you've got your pass. Log on at the time of the film, or a bit before to get chatting with the rest of the audience and to make sure everything's working, sit back and enjoy your cinema from home!
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What's it about?
Wadjda, an enterprising 10-year-old Saudi girl, dreams of owning a green bicycle that she sees in a shop front every day on her way to school. For a girl to ride a bike is frowned upon and her parents refuse to buy it for her. So, she must find a way to earn the money herself because this girl is determined to never give up.
With enormous sympathy for all, Al Mansour captures the isolation of Saudi women and their parallel lives of freedom at home and invisibility outside.
Modest as it may look, this is boundary-pushing cinema in all the best ways, and what a thrill it is to hear those boundaries creak.
You'd need a heart of stone not to be won over by Wadjda, a rebel yell with a spoonful of sugar and a pungent sense of a Riyadh society split between the home, the madrasa and the shopping mall.
The details
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1 hour 38
Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour