Ouaga Girls
Synopsis
A group of young women tweak machines and hammer away at a school for auto mechanics in Ouagadougou in this poetic story about life choices, sisterhood and the endeavor to nd your own way.
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- lm debut and coming-of-age lm with much warmth, laughs, heartbreak and depth.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Les Films du Balibari
- Foreign production companies : Momento Film, Seydoni Production
- French distribution : Juste Doc
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Estelle Robin-You
- Directors of photography : Iga Mikler, Sophie Winquist
- Music Composers : Christopher Roth, Saïdou Richard Traoré, Jenny Wilson
- Editors : Alexandra Strauss, Margareta Lagerqvist
- Sound recordists : Christian Holm, Anders Kwarnmark, Thomas Jaeger
- Foreign producers : David Herdies, Saïdou Richard Traoré
- Co-producer : Estelle Robin-You
- Press Attachés (film) : Matthieu De Faucal, Mélanie Simon-Franza
- Sound editors : Christian Holm, Anders Kwarnmark
- Grader : Hector Mora
- Post-production supervisor : Niclas Merits
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Women
- Themes : Youth
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Sweden, Burkina Faso, France, Qatar
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2017
- French release : 07/03/2018
- Runtime : 1 h 22 min
- Current status : Released
- Approval :
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
