Ouaga Girls
Theresa Traore Dahlberg (2017)
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.
Info & Credits
Directed by
Theresa Traore Dahlberg
Produced by
David Herdies
Co-produced by
Estelle Robin You/Les films du balibari (FRA)
Saïdou Richard Traore/Seydoni Burkina S.A (BF)
Film Väst (SWE)
Cinematography by
Iga Mikler/Sophie Winqvist
Edited by
Alexandra Strauss
Margareta Lagerqvist
Original Score
Christoffer Roth
Seydou Richard Traore
Jenny Wilson
Sound design
Erik Bjerknes
Color grade
Hector Mora
Genre
Documentary
Co-production countries
Sweden, Burkina Faso, France & Qatar
With development support from
The Swedish Film Institute/Antonio Russo Merenda & Cecilia Lidin, Nordisk Film & TV Fund, Doha Film Institute, Aide aux cinémas du monde – Centre National du cinéma et de l’image animée & French Institute, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Reaktor Sydost & Filmbasen.
Developed with support from
the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
In association with
SVT, DR, VPRO, YLE, AfriDocs
World Sales and Festivals
Taskovski Film, sales@taskovskifilms.com
Ouaga Girls | 2017 | 83 min | French, More | English, Swedish subtitles |
Awards and nominations
Winner of the Best Documentary by The Teen Jury at Beldocs, Serbia 2018
Winner of Prix Espoir at Festival Filministes, Montréal 2018
Winner of Prix du CREDIF pour la création cinématographique féminine at JCC 2017 Carthage Film Festival
Nominated in the section Best of Fests, IDFA 2017, Amsterdam
Nominated to Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary, Gothenburg Film Festival, 2017
Nominated to Tempo Documentary Award 2017, Tempo Documentary Festival, 2017, Stockholm
Nominated in the section Grand Angle, Visions du Réel 2017, Nyon
Winner of the Stockholm prize, Nöjesguiden, Sweden 2017
Festivals in selection
IDFA, Amsterdam, 2017
Göteborg Film Festival, 2017
Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, 2017
Fespaco, Burkina Faso, 2017
Visions du Réel, Nyon, 2017
Fidadoc, Morocco, 2017
Reviews
4/5 Dagens Nyheter (In Swedish)
Ouaga Girls Shows The Young Women of Burkina Faso Like Never Before Dandano