Ouaga Girls
Ouaga Girls

Movie·2017·1h 22m

Ouaga Girls

Directed By

Theresa Traoré Dahlberg

Country

Burkina Faso

Language

French

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The Story

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.

Producer

David Herdies

Cinematography

Sophie Winqvist

Music

Christoffer Roth

Editor

Alexandra Strauss

Themes

feminismcar mechanicwoman directorburkina faso

Production House

Momento Film

Audience Score

62%

6 votes

Skip13%
Timepass30%
Go for it37%
Perfection20%

Where to watch

Region: FR

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Cast

Chantal Niessougou

Self

Bintou Konaté

Self

Mouniratou Sédogo

Self

Marthe Ouedraogo

Self

Rose Kientega

Self

Dina Tapsoba

Self

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Crew

Sophie Winqvist

Director of Photography

Theresa Traoré Dahlberg

Theresa Traoré Dahlberg

Director

Alexandra Strauss

Editor

Margareta Lagerqvist

Margareta Lagerqvist

Editor

David Herdies

Producer

Iga Mikler

Director of Photography

Christoffer Roth

Original Music Composer

Jenny Wilson

Jenny Wilson

Original Music Composer

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