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Cinema

Wadjda is Saudi Arabia’s first feature-length film and is shot by a woman

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

20 July 2013

9:00 AM

Wadjda

PG, Key Cities

The World’s End

15, Nationwide

Wadjda is the first feature-length film to come out of Saudi Arabia, and was shot by the country’s first female director, and although people will talk about how it breaks boundaries and how pioneering it is, that’s not what you most need to know. What you most need to know is that it’s fascinating, involving, moving, an entirely excellent film in its own right and, therefore, rather unlike The World’s End, which isn’t.

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