Wadjda

5/21/2026

"Wadjda" (Waad Mohammed) really only has one thing on her mind. She's fed up being teased by her friend "Abdullah" (Abdullrahman Al Gohani) on his bike, and so decides it's time she gets one - a nice new green one - for herself. Though she broadly adheres to the rules at her Riyadh school, this is a young individual who is not going to be put off too much by convention and so she devises quite a cunning plan to fund her grand design. She is going to win the first prize in the school's Koranic recital competition. Her dad works shifts and so is often not at home, but her loving mother (Reem Abdullah) is concerned that this conservative neighbourhood will frown upon a ten year old girl on her chopper, so she puts her foot down. Undeterred, and seeing some positives as she ingratiates herself