Berlin Independent Film Festival 2025 - GRIDLOCKED

Original title: Gridlocked

80 Min. | DE | 2024

Language: OmeU | Original language: Deutsch

Director: Ilka Marie Sparringa

Cast: Friedrich Raphael Bochröder, Jörn Hentschel, Simon Licht, Sarah Alles, Paul Boche, Annabelle Mandeng, Stefan Lampadius, Christian Rudolf, Dennis Madaus, Charles Rettinghaus, Alexander Eisenbraun, Stephan Böttcher, Serkan Durmus, Anderas Grusinski et al.

Nickolas Schott, ambitious attorney and father to a small family, loses his wife under mysterious circumstances shortly after he won his yet most volatile case. Suddenly a murder suspect himself, he has to disappear into the small town’s underground and gets entangled in some homeless people’s affairs and their “drug consumption.” It quickly becomes apparent that these are illegal drug tests. Nick will soon have to discover that he plays a crucial role in the system he is trying to uncover.