Ouaga Girls

201782m6.8 (7)
Documentary

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classmates become their port of safety, joy and sisterhood, all while they are going through the life changing transition into becoming adults in a country boiling with political changes. In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. The young girls at a mechanics school in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou are right in the middle of a crucial point in life when their dreams, hopes and courage are confronted with opinions, fears and society’s expectations of what a woman should be. Using interesting narrative solutions, Theresa Traore Dahlberg depicts their last school years and at the same time succeeds in showing the country’s violent past and present. This is a feature-film debut and coming-of-age film with much warmth, laughs, heartbreak and depth.

Crew

SW

Sophie Winqvist

Director of Photography

Theresa Traoré Dahlberg

Theresa Traoré Dahlberg

Director

DH

David Herdies

Producer

IM

Iga Mikler

Director of Photography

CR

Christoffer Roth

Original Music Composer

Jenny Wilson

Jenny Wilson

Original Music Composer

Cast

CN

Chantal Niessougou

Self

BK

Bintou Konaté

Self

MS

Mouniratou Sédogo

Self

MO

Marthe Ouedraogo

Self

RK

Rose Kientega

Self

DT

Dina Tapsoba

Self

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