15 Most Groundbreaking Movies Of The Decade (So Far)

7. Wadjda

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.