THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

Five friends are lured by a competition into a supposed „Escape Room“ adventure. What they don‘t know, however, is that the so-called game is, in fact, a behavioural experiment developed by a psychologist and a computer scientist. The teenagers‘ friendship will be tested to the limit as the escape room starts playing the friends off against each other and confronting them with their deepest fears and weaknesses. A race against time and a battle between life and death begins...

Hamburg Media School graduate Pascal Schröder‘s debut feature is the first German feature film to be predominantly shot using the “virtual production“ technology which replaces the green screen with an LED studio to create photo-real digital landscapes and sets.