Dunya & Desie
Dramaparent child relationshipamsterdam, netherlandsarranged marriageroad tripfamily relationshipscultural differenceinterracial friendshipteenage pregnancymarocco
A warm, character-driven road trip about two best friends navigating cultural expectations, identity, and growing up as they journey through Morocco.
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.
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Maryam Hassouni
Dunya El-Beneni
Eva van de Wijdeven
Desie Koppenol
Mahjoub Benmoussa
Nabil El-Beneni
Rachida Iaallala
Kenza El-Beneni
Christine van Stralen
Monique Koppenol
Theo Maassen
Jeff Schouten
Iliass Ojja
Soufian El-Beneni
Ilias Addab
Shamir
Tygo Gernandt
Pim
Micha Hulshof
Maik
Nezha Karim
Dunya's Aunt
Marcel Musters
Hans Schakel
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