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Dunya & Desie (2008)

Dunya & Desie (2008)

Drama
Release Date: 2008, April 17
Directors: Dana Nechushtan
Countries: Belgium, Morocco, Netherlands
Production: Ágora Films, Motion Investment Group, Lemming Film, A Private View, NPS
Cast: Tygo Gernandt, Christine van Stralen, Theo Maassen, Marcel Musters, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Mahjoub Benmoussa, Alix Adams, Iliass Ojja, Micha Hulshof, Ilias Addab, Eva van de Wijdeven, Maryam Hassouni

Overview:

Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.

Keywords:

family relationships interracial friendship parent child relationship road trip arranged marriage teenage pregnancy amsterdam, netherlands cultural difference marocco