Name: Ouaga Girls
Director: Theresa Traoré Dahlberg
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-08-25
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 6.2

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A group of young women from the outskirts of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, meet at the feminist education centre to study to become car mechanics. Ouaga Girls is a poetic coming-of-age story of sisterhood, life choices, and the strife of finding your own path.

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