Dunya & Desie

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Dunya & Desie

Release Date: April 17, 2008

Year	:	2008
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	Agora Films, Motion Investment Group, Lemming Film, A Private View, NPS
Director	:	Dana Nechushtan
Producers	:	Rebecca van Unen, Joost de Vries, Leontine Petit, Jeremy Burdek, Nadia Khamlichi, Adrian Politowski, Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Elske Falkena, Dries Phlypo, Souad Lamriki, Bénédicte Bellocq, Wendy van Veen, Brechtje Schaling, Mieke de Wulf, George van Breemen, Kees Brouwer, Mona Houd, Khalid Ziraoui
Writers	:	Robert Alberdingk Thijm
RunTime	:	101 mins.

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.