Ouaga Girls
6.0
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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Cast
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Theresa Traoré Dahlberg Director · Jenny Wilson Composer Christoffer Roth Composer
First release January 28, 2017 · Produced in Burkina Faso, Qatar, Netherlands, Finland, France, Sweden, South Africa
Production
Momento Film
Production
Burkina Faso · Qatar · Netherlands · Finland · France · Sweden · South Africa
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Sweden · January 28, 2017
Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
Sweden · August 25, 2017
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No release date listed for United States.
France
March 7, 2018 · Theatrical
Russia
August 19, 2017 · Premiere · Rudnik International Debut Documentary Film Festival
Spain
February 6, 2019 · Barcelona subtitled version premiere
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