Saudi Arabia - In a country where only men can ride a bike, the little Wadjda falls in love with a green bicycle on sale at nearby drugstore and she decides to buy it. But there are two problems: it costs 800 riyal and, above all, her mother doesn't agree because she considers it improper for a young girl. So Wadjda decides to try to get the money by herself. Haifaa Al-Mansou tells, through the daily reality, the strength of a world oppressed by restrinctions that become even more suffered when they are imposed by the woman themselves. 

First female director of Saudi Arabia and one of the most significant figures of her country, Haifaa Al-Mansour graduated from the American University of Cairo and she got a Master's degree in Film studies at the University of Sydney. She had great success with her first short film "Who?", "The bitter Journey and "The only way out", and even with her documentary "Women without shadows" (2005), influencing many filmmakers from her home country, where she is praised from some for her courage and blamed by others for her taboo topics treated in her works. Her first feature film, "The green bicycle" was presented with great success at the Venice Film Festival 2012.

In collaboration with Schermi e Lavagne 

Schermi e lavagne is a project of image education organized and promoted by Cineteca di Bologna and is aimed at children and young people. For each age group there are different program activities that point at make viewers conscious and passionate, able to prove their skill of judgment and critical autonomy in the forest of images in which we are plunged every day.