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.
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Executive Producer :
Sound recordists :
Christian Holm, Anders Kwarnmark, Thomas Jaeger
Directors of photography :
Editors :
Alexandra Strauss, Margareta Lagerqvist
Music Composers :
Christopher Roth, Saïdou Richard Traoré, Jenny Wilson
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Foreign producers :
David Herdies, Saïdou Richard Traoré
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Press Attachés (film) :
Matthieu de Faucal, Mélanie Simon-Franza
Sound editors :
Christian Holm, Anders Kwarnmark