Wadja

Wadja
This was my favourite film in the festival. It is Saudi Arabia’s first submission to the Oscars. The story is about a young girl who desperately wants a bike. But in the conservative and restrictive world she lives in, riding a bike is not anything her family or school can approve of. Although never a keen student, she enters a Koran-related contest because the prize will be enough to purchase the bike she has set her sights on.