Saudi Arabia made history in 2012 when Wadjda became the first feature film shot entirely in the country, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, a woman working in a society that then had no public cinemas. That tension between tradition and change runs through much of what Saudi cinema has since tried to express. See what Macca makes of it below.
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Genre Drama
★★★½ — Wadjda (2012)
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