Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 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 & always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale that she wants desperately so she can race her friend Abdullah 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 & 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 & 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 to the memorization & recitation of Koranic verses & her teachers begin to see 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 Actors Waad Mohammed Reem Abdullah Abdullrahman Al Gohani Ahd & Sultan Al Assaf Director Haifaa Al-Mansour Certificate PGYear 2012 Languages Arabic Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx)