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Name: Wadjda
Released: 2013-9-13
Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf

Wadjda

PG
1h 37m
2013

99%

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A story set in Saudi Arabia and focused on the experiences of a young girl who challenges her country's traditions.

Director:

Haifaa Al-Mansour

Producer:

Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul

Writer:

Haifaa Al-Mansour

Cast:

Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Algohani, Ahd, Sultan Al Assaf

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

99%

Critics Consensus: Transgressive in the best possible way, Wadjda presents a startlingly assured new voice from a corner of the globe where cinema has been all but silenced.

Reviews

CineWomen

Annlee Ellingson

[Director Haifaa] Al-Mansour doesn’t explain the particulars of Saudi culture for Western viewers. Rather, she drops us in, sans exposition, to experience and piece it together ourselves.

Fortunately, Wadjda goes beyond the simple delineation of a quotidian drama about a foreign culture that's hard to understand and does so through the protagonist's hope and optimism. [Full review in Spanish]

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Battleship Pretension

Josh Long

Films like these are insightful and useful instruments for change.

Wadjda builds a complex portrait of a place and people around a simple story.

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