LES INVERTUEUSES

Chloé Aïcha Boro
Burkina Faso | 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 96 min
Q+A with the director to follow
German Premiere

SAT 15 NOV
15:30 FSK CINEMA

In a working-class neighborhood of Ouagadougou lives a widowed grandmother who harbors a painful secret: she was once forced to marry a man she did not love. Forty-five years later, her heart still beats for her first great love. Her granddaughter Natie, a teenager struggling with her identity, discovers her grandmother’s passion and does everything she can to bring the two lovers together – while also finding her own path.
LES INVERTUEUSES is much more than just a love story. The film tells the story of the emancipation of two women in a Burkina Faso marked by insecurity, drastic security measures, and internally displaced people streaming into the cities. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the country’s fight against terrorism, driven by a desire for freedom and self-determination.

CHLOÉ AÏCHA BORO (*1978) grew up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She studied modern literature and began a career as a journalist, writing for Burkinabe magazines and newspapers such as La Voix du Sahel and Le Marabout, and published her first novel Paroles Orpheline in 2006. Gradually, Boro turned to filmmaking, working as an assistant director and presenter. In 2012, she directed her first film, SUR LES TRACES DE SALIMATA. Her first feature-length documentary, FARAFIN KO, followed in 2014. In 2017, she directed FRANCE-AUREVOIR, LE NOUVEAU COMMERCE TRIANGULAIRE, which won Best Documentary at the Festival International de Cinéma Vues d’Afrique in Montreal. In 2019, she released LE LOUP D’OR DE BALOLÉ, a documentary about workers in the Balolé quarry and the effects of the 2014 political revolution; it won Best Documentary at FESPACO. AL DJANAT: THE ORIGINAL PARADISE (2023) follows her return to Burkina Faso after her uncle’s death. The film premiered at FESPACO 2023 and was later screened at international festivals, including winning Best African Documentary at the Encounters South Africa International Documentary Film Festival.