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 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. 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 Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herself...
Waad Mohammed....Wadjda
Abdullrahman Al Gohani....Abdullah
Ahd....Ms. Hussa
Sultan Al Assaf....Father
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Dana Abdullilah....Salma
Rehab Ahmed....Noura
Rafa Al Sanea....Fatima
Mohammed Albahry....Contractor
Mariam Alghamdi....Grandmother
Ali Algorbani....Salesman 1
Sara Aljaber....Leila
Mohammed Alkhozain....Bearded man in toy shop
Maram Alkohzaim....Contestant
Mariam Alkohzaim....Contestant
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