在这部瓦加杜古女孩片中,本片讲述了瓦加杜古一群年轻女孩在在一所汽车修理学院学习汽修，在人生最美好的年纪里，在面对困难和恐惧的时候，选择勇敢地追求着自己的梦想。导演运用了有趣的叙事手法，记录了她们在汽修学院的最后一年，这其中充满温暖、欢笑的生活以及对人生的思索。本片是导演的处女作，但却是一部成熟的电影。
In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. A group of 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 at showing the country's violent past and present. Thisis a feature-film debut and coming-of-age film with much warm, laughs, heartbreak and depth.
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.
