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2014/15 Season

WAJDA

Saudi Arabia/Germany 2012 (PG) 98 minutes Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour

Ipswich Film Theatre - 9 March 2015 - 7.30pm This inspiring story of a Saudi girl entering a Koran recital competition in order to raise the price tag on a coveted bicycle is doubly transgressive since, in Saudi Arabia, women are permitted neither to ride bikes nor make movies. AUDIENCE COMMENTS: Wonderful, moving, life affirming and an eye-opener; What a good film – a real treat; Slow but sensitively made and an interesting glimpse of Saudi conservatism; A nice little story, well told, if not always easy to follow; Charming, but a little too slow.

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