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.
Unfortunately the movie Ouaga Girls is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Sound | Erik Bjerknes | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Camera | Sophie Winqvist | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Theresa Traoré Dahlberg | Director |
| Editing | Alexandra Strauss | Editor |
| Production | Estelle Robin-You | Co-Producer |
| Production | David Herdies | Producer |
| Production | Seydou Richard Traoré | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Christoffer Roth | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Iga Mikler | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Margareta Lagerqvist | Editor |
| Sound | Kristoffer Hamilton | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Thomas Jæger | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Anders Kwarnmark | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Jenny Wilson | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Christian Holm | Sound Editor |
