DUNYA & DESIE
synopsis
Dunya and Desie are best friends. Both girls are 18 years old – but that’s all they have in common. Dunya is Moroccan born and bred: Ramadan, Imam and Mecca are not just foreign words to her but form an integral part of her life. Desie on the other hand is Dutch – as Dutch as cheese, clogs and tulips! When Dunya learns on her eighteenth birthday that her family has chosen a groom for her she is anything but delighted. She is to marry a distant cousin, somewhere in Morocco. Desie, on the other hand, has quite a different problem: she’s pregnant. She never knew her father, but her desire to meet him is getting stronger and stronger. When she discovers that he lives in Morocco, the two girlfriends make a snap decision to go there.
| international title: | Dunya & Desie |
| original title: | Dunya & Desie |
| working title: | Dunya & Desie in Marocco |
| country: | Netherlands |
| sales agent: | Delphis Films inc. |
| year: | 2007 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Dana Nechushtan |
| release date: | NL 17/04/2008 |
| screenplay: | Robert Alberdingk Thijm |
| cast: | Maryam Hassouni, Eva van den Wijdeven, Christine Van Stralen, Theo Maassen |
| cinematography by: | Bert Pot |
| film editing: | J.P. Luijsterburg |
| music: | Steve Willaert |
| producer: | George van Breemen, Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries |
| production: | Lemming Film, A Private View, Motion Investment Group |
| backing: | Dutch Film Fund, CoBo Fund, NPS, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, MEDIA Programme |
















