15 Must-See Movies at the LA Film Festival

LAFF has a little bit of everything: drama, art, sports, teens, gangsters, revolutionaries … and cows

"Wadjda"

Restrictions on the role of women and the mingling of the sexes in Saudi Arabia are so strict that writer-director Haifaa al Mansour couldn't appear in public with her crew as she was making her film about a young girl trying to obtain a bicycle — instead, she had to direct from inside a van.

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