Dunya & Desie

Dunya & Desie

2008 · 101 min · ★ 6.9 · Drama

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.

Directed by Dana Nechushtan · Written by Robert Alberdingk Thijm

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