Girls Don't Fly
Documentary Film, AT/DE 2016, Farbe, 90 min., OmdU
Diagonale 2016
Director, Script, Location Sound: Monika Grassl
Cast: Lydia Afi Wetsi, Esther Fatimatu Mohammed, Jonathan Porter, Patricia Mawuli Porter, Bernice Klüsey, Hamdiatu Alhassan, Barbara Yaa Ofosua, Fauzia Doe Kuebunya, Sumaya Cindy Mohammed, Tina Yeboah K. Akosua, Jennifer Eyram Abiwu, Monica Fafanyo, Mabel Adjei, Mary Soda, Prof. Ulrich Lanz
Camera: Petra Lissom, Julia Hönemann
Editor: Sven Kulik
Music: David Rich
Sounddesign: Oscar Stiebitz
Producers: Ralph Wieser, Arek Gielnik
Production: Mischief Films
Co-production: INDI Film
in Koproduktion mit
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg und Bayerischer Rundfunk
AvTech Academy in Ghana vows to give young women a promising future as pilots. Monika Grassl visits the aviation academy and accompanies the students for several weeks during their training. The humanitarian educational project soon turns out to be a cloak for the colonial arrogance of its British leader. Girls Don’t Fly unveils this ostensible aid towards gaining independence as a ruthless situation of exploitation.