Ouaga Girls (2017)
Ouaga Girls (2017)
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.

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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.


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Genres: Documentary

Language: Français

Release Date: 25 August 2017

Country: BF, QA, NL, FI, FR, SE, ZA

Runtime: 82m

Company Credits

Company: Momento Film

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Sound

Erik Bjerknes

Erik Bjerknes

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Christoffer Roth

Christoffer Roth

Original Music Composer

Jenny Wilson

Jenny Wilson

Original Music Composer

Kristoffer Hamilton

Kristoffer Hamilton

Sound Recordist

Christian Holm

Christian Holm

Sound Editor

Thomas Jæger

Thomas Jæger

Sound Editor

Anders Kwarnmark

Anders Kwarnmark

Sound Editor

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Sophie Winqvist

Sophie Winqvist

Director of Photography

Iga Mikler

Iga Mikler

Director of Photography

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