In Saudi filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour’s winsome ... The Wright brothers saw the possibility of flight, of liberation, in a bicycle. So does director-screenwriter al-Mansour.

But Wadjda has her eye on the prize money. Her plan is to win and buy the bike of her dreams. No matter that girls do not ride bikes in Saudi Arabia. While Wadjda practices her recitations ...

And she thinks she should be allowed to ride a bicycle ... forms the basis for a movie that’s almost miraculous in the way it subverts our images and expectations of Saudi life.

But Wadjda has her eye on the prize money. Her plan is to win and buy the bike of her dreams. No matter that girls do not ride bikes in Saudi Arabia. While Wadjda practices her recitations ...

In fact, the movie is doubly ... of an outgoing Saudi girl who decides to enter a Koran-memorization contest at her school, planning to use the prize money to buy herself a bicycle (though the ...

Director Haifaa al-Mansour insists Wadjda, her movie ... issue in Saudi Arabia for years, and it says a great deal about Mansour’s deftness as a filmmaker that the coveted bicycle can be both ...