Den grønne cykel (Wadjda)

Wadjda (stream/optag NO) Wadjda (stream/optag DK) (7,6 IMDB). En pige vil vinde Koran-gentagelseskonkurrencen for at få råd til en grøn cykel.

"[...] a rare movie shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, which has no cinema industry to speak of, and the first feature by a female filmmaker from that country. Forbidden from mixing with the men in her crew, Al-Mansour often directed via walkie-talkie from the back of a van." sagde Time Out. 

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"You’d think such circumstances would have galvanized al-Mansour to make a more daring film, but instead, she’s made what largely feels like the Saudi equivalent of 1,000 stateside underdog tales."

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Saudiarabisk/tysk drama fra 2012. Ti år gamle Wadjda ønsker seg en nydelig, grønn sykkel. Den skal hun sykle om kapp med nabogutten med. Men moren hennes synes ikke sånt passer seg for ei jente. Med: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani. Regi:...

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Wadjda er en nysgerrig og foretagsom pige på 10 år.

Wadjda (2012)

Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour. With Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd. An enterprising Saudi girl signs 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...