Ouaga Girls

Aug 25 2017 N/A 1h 22m
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.

Plot

A group of young women from the outskirts of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, meet at the feminist education centre to study to become car mechanics. Ouaga Girls is a poetic coming-of-age story of sisterhood, life choices, and the strife of finding your own path.

Written by

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Directed by

Theresa Traoré Dahlberg

Cast

Chantal Niessougou, Bintou Konaté, Mouniratou Sédogo

Crew

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Production Countries

South Africa, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Qatar, Burkina Faso, France

Production Companies

Momento Film

Languages

Français

Awards

2 wins & 8 nominations

Trailers
Trailer | Ouaga Girls | Theresa Traore Dahlberg
Ouaga Girls (2017) - Trailer (English Subs)
Scores
# of Votes
112
Average Rating
6 out of 10
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