Saudi Arabia, a country that still forbids its women citizens to drive, has submitted its first-ever feature film for Academy Award consideration: “Wadjda,” a critically acclaimed triumph from female Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour.

Pic, which follows a 10-year-old girl in Riyadh who dreams of [...]

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Scene from the movie ‘Wadjda.’ Waad Mohammed plays Wadjda. (Tobias Kownatzki / Sony Pictures Classics / September 12, 2013)

Haifaa Al Mansour’s drama “Wadjda,” about a young girl determined to win money to buy a bicycle she’s forbidden to ride, has buy viagra 25mg been selected as Saudi Arabia’s [...]

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Despite the fact that an official film industry doesn’t exist in Saudi Arabia, after completing her studies in the West, director Haifaa Al-Mansour was determined to give the female youth of her country a “voice.”

Providing an intimate, localized coming-of-age glimpse into a world based on her own [...]

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