Lucho Hermanus

Benauwd (English title "Cramped") is a short psychological drama/crime film about Marlon, a 20 year old from Rotterdam, who is being threatened because of illegal gambling debts. When it's clear that Marlon cannot pay back the debts, he gets in deeper trouble.

A truck carrying a Dutch military convoy on a peacekeeping mission breaks down somewhere in the desert. As a group of soldiers waits for a repair team to arrive, they encounter a local boy who refuses to leave.

15-year-old Zakaria will face the toughest decisions of his life as he deals with juvenile detention, a new foster family and the temptations of organised crime. After a failed rescue attempt by Muis, the problems of 15-year-old Komtgoed are growing rapidly. A fight in the street escalates and he ends up in the clutches of the judicial system. Juvenile detention and a foster family follow. As his problems increase, there seems to be only one way to make something of his life.