Dunya & Desie

Movie
Audience Score
71
Dunya & Desie
NR 1 hr 41 minDrama
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.
StarringMaryam HassouniEva van de WijdevenMahjoub Benmoussa
DirectorDana Nechushtan
WriterRobert Alberdingk Thijm

Movie Details

Original Language:Dutch
Executive Producers:Bénédicte Bellocq, Souad Lamriki
Production Companies:Agora Films, Motion Investment Group, Lemming Film, A Private View, NPS
Movie Tags:
parent child relationshipfamily relationshipsroad triparranged marriageamsterdam, netherlandsteenage pregnancycultural differenceinterracial friendshipmarocco