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Dunya & Desie

2008 · 101 min

A warm, bumpy road trip through friendship, culture clashes and growing up, funny and tender in equal measure.

Directed by: Dana Nechushtan
Genres: Drama
Starring: Maryam Hassouni, Eva van de Wijdeven, Mahjoub Benmoussa

Overview: 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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Directed by: Dana Nechushtan
Genres: Drama
Starring: Maryam Hassouni, Eva van de Wijdeven, Mahjoub Benmoussa

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
family
coming-of-age
identity
parenthood
Places: road trip
countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	4
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Dana Nechushtan
Written by: Robert Alberdingk Thijm
Starring: Maryam Hassouni, Eva van de Wijdeven, Mahjoub Benmoussa, Rachida Iaallala, Christine van Stralen, Theo Maassen, Iliass Ojja, Ilias Addab
Music: Steve Willaert
Cinematography: Bert Pot
Runtime: 101 min
Country: Morocco, Belgium, Netherlands
Languages: English, Arabic, Dutch

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