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Best of the Year

Explore the most unforgettable, inescapable, unlookawayable shorts of 2024, selected by the Vimeo curation team.

Breakout Creators

The breakout filmmakers that we've got our eyes set on!

Best Branded

The brands that get it, get it. See the best branded storytelling from 2024.

From Sundance to Staff Picks

Enjoy a selection of shorts from the Sundance Film Festival from the comfort of your living room.

SIERRA

An Oscars® shortlisted journey into the the surreal car racing world and father's obsession.

Vimeo & European Film Awards

The European Film Awards has partnered with Vimeo to present Staff Picks, a prestigious collection of curated short films. Since 2008, the coveted Staff Picks have helped launch the careers of celebrated directors, inspired millions, and built a global community of storytellers.

With new curated videos added each week, the European Film Academy continues to celebrate achievements in short filmmaking year-round, encouraging European audiences and film professionals to check back regularly for inspiration.

Staff Picks

VALENTIN HAÜY – THE LAST BIRTHDAY

ASSOCIATION VALENTIN HAÜY – THE LAST BIRTHDAY • Director – Lucie Bourdeu Production – Hiersoir Executive Producer – Anne-Cécile Jemin Caroline Helaine et Yoël Servadio Line pro...

VALENTIN HAÜY - THE LAST BIRTHDAY

HIERSOIR

Tommy Holohan & Megra – Show Me The Sky (Official Video)

Tommy Holohan & Megra - Show Me The Sky (Official Video)

Blink

Shirley Ford, an eighty-three-year-old East Texan widow, becomes infatuated with Marvin Clope, a younger married man she meets at the local Cowboy Church. Sundance Film Festival 2024 Raindance Film...

Pasture Prime

Diffan Sina Norman

DOECHII – DENIAL IS A RIVER

Denial Is A River Credits: Directors: James Mackel & Carlos Acosta Production Company: LOTUMN Executive Producer / Producer: Autumn Maschi Executive Producer: Loris Russier EPs: Moosa Tiffith...

DOECHII - DENIAL IS A RIVER

lotumn

An apathetic teenager is dropped off on the outskirts of town to work on a project with the school outcast. The two boys form an unlikely connection, but not without consequences. Written, Directed...

Classmates

Major Dorfman

Persona | 2022 | 2D Computer | 6m42s | HD | Color | 1:1.77(16:9) | MOON Sujin The process of being encroached by the persona.

Persona

KIAFA[AniSEED]

European Film Awards Collection

“Über Wasser” / “On Solid Ground”, written & directed by Jela Hasler 12 Min. A city, in summer. The morning coolness in the river does not last long, the heat covers the city like a ma...

On Solid Ground

Langfilm

Germany 2022, 04:25 min premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival find a behind the scenes video here: directed and produced by Jonatan Schwenk music & sound design David Kamp screenplay...

ZOON

Jonatan Schwenk

A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honour. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence. Based on a story by...

The Debutante

Animate Projects

Neighbour Abdi 2022 How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful...

Neighbour Abdi

Douwe Dijkstra

Misty field, crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her virginity, she will finally find her place. Written and directed by Marija Apcevska Production Kino Oko in...

North Pole

Kino Oko

Staff Pick Premieres

Fei, a 16 year old British-Chinese girl, is the top violinist in an elite youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist arrives to challenge her place, Fei’s anxieties and internalized racism grow t...

Shé (Snake)

Renee Zhan

Oscars® shortlisted in the Animated Short Film category. Based on the director’s father’s short animation from 1980 and loosely inspired by the director’s own childhood, Sierra takes us into the surre...

Sierra

Sander Joon

Victor is unhappy in his housing for autistic adults. To avoid the Friday disco, he goes out for a walk in the neighborhood and then he meets a young sex worker.

Blond Night

Travelling Distribution

In response to rising costs of living the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of “Wildmen” in the city’s vast ravine netwo...

Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area

Solmund M

In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees...

A Crab in the Pool

Travelling Distribution

Curated Collections

Best Branded

Best of the Year

Best of the Year

Breakout Creators

Breakout Creators

House of Horrors

House of Horrors

Love Stinks

Spotlight on Charlotte Regan

Spotlight on Charlotte Regan

Spotlight on Kristoffer Borgli

Spotlight on Kristoffer Borgli

Sundance Film Festival Shorts

Sundance Film Festival Shorts

Trippy Animations

Trippy Animations

European Film Awards

37th Edition

European Film Awards

37th Edition

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News & Press

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Eureka! The European Film Awards go to Athens in January 2027

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100 cities in 42 countries: Month of European Film comes to a successful close

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THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD by Emanuel Pârvu wins the European University Film Award (EUFA) 2024

Press release

Countdown to the European Film Awards!

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