An enterprising Saudi girl sign on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise t...
An enterprising Saudi girl sign on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conervative 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 repercussion from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herelf. At firt, 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 plan are thwarted when she is caught running various schemes at school. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hear of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school. She devotes herelf...
