#abstandhalten (#keepdistance) / GERMANY / U.S. PREMIERE

Everything shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Timmo (Thomas Bartling), is trapped abroad. His best buddy Ben (Jörg Pauly) just got kicked out of his house by his (now ex-) girlfriend. Timmo offers him his couch even though he’s not at home. Timmo also forgot to mention that there’s a new woman in his life, Sara (Farina Violetta Giesmann), who already moved in. The thought of being together with his best friend’s girlfriend during the lockdown makes Ben extremely uncomfortable, especially because Sara’s open-heartedness creates a lot of awkward situations for him.

Director Biography

Roman Gonther has been working in the film business for some time now. He started as an editor and story board artist for corporate films and commercials. Then he became a writer for television and worked at a film studio in Frankfurt.

Today as, a writer, he develops concepts for corporate films and commercials for international companies. He directed “The Observation” a 20minutes short film he also wrote and produced as well as several projects for television, like a 3x45min documentary series about “Healing Places”. He also worked on several motion pictures and television shows as a visual effect supervisor.