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.
Ouaga Girls
August 25, 2017
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Chantal Niessougou
Self
Bintou Konaté
Self
Mouniratou Sédogo
Self
Marthe Ouedraogo
Self
Rose Kientega
Self
Dina Tapsoba
Self
Theresa Traoré Dahlberg
Director
Jenny Wilson
Original Music Composer
Thomas Jæger
Sound Editor
Anders Kwarnmark
Sound Editor
Erik Bjerknes
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Christoffer Roth
Original Music Composer
Kristoffer Hamilton
Sound Recordist
Christian Holm
Sound Editor
Sophie Winqvist
Director of Photography
Iga Mikler
Director of Photography
Alexandra Strauss
Editor
Margareta Lagerqvist
Editor