What's it about? Continuing the tradition of movies about bicycles which includes such classics as Roberto Rossellini's The Bicycle Thief and the more recent The Kid With A Bike, Haifaa al-Mansour's Wadjda centres around a young girl desperate to acquire the green bike she sees in a store on her way to school. To raise the money she decides to enter a Quran recital competition. What makes it groundbreaking? Coming-of-age movies have often featured young protagonists discovering new interests - until Wadjda none had been filmed in Saudi Arabia. Indeed, this was the first movie to be shot entirely in the country, and the first to be made by a female director. Wadjda might be only mildly transgressive when compared to many Western films - coming from one of the worst dictatorships in the world it's something of a miracle it was made in the first place.