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 |