Wadjda builds a complex portrait of a place and people around a simple story.

Though 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.

Determinedly non-preachy, non-bitter and rapturously uplifting.

Giving us a peek at discrimination through the eyes of a child, 'Wadjda' tenderly plays at our heartstrings, reinforcing the magnificent blessing of our unadulterated freedom.