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Sundance 2025 recap

February 12th, 2025

Image of the 2024 Best of the Year badge, created by multimedia artist and filmmaker, Jeron Braxton. Image features the iconic Staff Pick badge stylized in a low-poly video game style, with images of mountains in the background.

Vimeo's Best of the Year Awards 2024

January 16th, 2025

We came, we saw, we curated. Check out our favorite shorts from 2024's Sundance Film Festival.

That’s a wrap! Our unofficial 2024 jury awards at Sundance Film Festival

January 31st, 2024

Hear from the curators behind Staff Picks, and a handful of the filmmakers who have been given one, about three significant innovations within the film industry.

15 years of Vimeo Staff Picks: Tracing its innovative history and future

November 30th, 2023

We came, we saw, we curated. Check out our favorite shorts from 2023's Sundance Film Festival.

That’s a wrap! Our unofficial 2023 jury awards at Sundance Film Festival

January 30th, 2023

From the best new Staff Picks to magnificent marketing work, Video Matters is a monthly selection of Vimeo must-sees.

Meet Video Matters: A monthly selection of brilliant videos from our community

October 12th, 2022

Based on a 911 call that made national news in 2013, this week’s Staff Pick Premiere is “Dekalb Elementary,” a gripping Oscar-nominated short.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Dekalb Elementary" by Reed Van Dyck

July 13th, 2022

In this week's Staff Pick Premiere, "West by God," Scott Lazer details an intimate power struggle, aka a first date.

Staff Pick Premiere: "West by God" by Scott Lazer

July 6th, 2022

The director and his father at a table

Staff Pick Award at Palm Springs ShortFest 2022: “Meantime” by Michael T Workman

June 29th, 2022

Three refugees run the race of their lives from Calais to Dover through the Euro Tunnel in Arash Ashtiani's "The Tunnel."

Staff Pick Premiere: "The Tunnel" by Arash Ashtiani

June 22nd, 2022

Adrien Merigeau's Oscar-nominated short "Genius Loci" takes viewers on a bonafide fever dream.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Genius Loci" by Adrien Merigeau

June 1st, 2022

Joe Cappa's "Ghost dogs" is a Staff Pick Premiere! These ghosts are part dog, part human, but fully dead. You've never seen anything like this.

Staff Pick Premiere: “Ghost Dogs” by Joe Cappa

May 18th, 2022

In this week’s Staff Pick Premiere, forgotten folk singer Lena Black discovers her fifty-year-old song “Charlotte” has been remade into a hit pop song.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Charlotte" by Zach Dorn

May 11th, 2022

"The Kites" is a poignant story from the POV of a kid, situated on the war-torn border between Iran and Iraq.

Staff Pick Premiere: "The Kites" by Seyed Payam Hosseini

May 4th, 2022

A father and daughter travel along a chaotic path, where their inability to find each other will unveil a complicated relationship.

Staff Pick Premiere: "The Journey" by Ève Saint-Louis

April 27th, 2022

Anthropomorphic wolf gigolos, BDSM, and sleazy films are on hilarious display in Chintis Lundgren's "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves."

Staff Pick Premiere: "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves" by Chintis Lundgren

April 20th, 2022

This hybrid-doc brings to life a never-before-heard interview recounting the harrowing torture and brainwashing at a secretive leadership seminar in 1970.

Staff Pick Premiere: "You've Never Been Completely Honest" by Joey Izzo

April 6th, 2022

If you love something, resist eating it: “O Black Hole!” is an epically original lesson in accepting the ephemeral.

Staff Pick Premiere: "O Black Hole!" by Renee Zhan

March 23rd, 2022

Even in the year of 2022, “2002” stands out as an instant Staff Pick comedy classic.

Staff Pick Premiere: "2002 (YEAR OF THE HORSE)" by Matias & Mathias

March 16th, 2022

This week’s Staff Pick Premiere is an absurdist tale of a woman's grief manifesting as an obsession with elephants. Then she goes on safari... literally.

Staff Pick Premiere: “Wildebeest” by Nicolas Keppens and Matthias Phlips

March 2nd, 2022

In this week’s Staff Pick Premiere, three lonely, self-centered neighbors become intertwined in a lust-fueled, comedic triangle with permanent consequences.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Sh—t Happens" by David Štumpf & Michaela Mihályi

February 23rd, 2022

After a vampiric culture vulture invades a Black hair salon, the staff of the salon must stick to their roots — or be swept up, one by one.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Hair Wolf" by Mariama Diallo

February 2nd, 2022

Animation still of two characters fighting over a casket

That’s a wrap! Our unofficial 2022 jury awards at Sundance Film Festival

February 1st, 2022

Animation legend Georges Schwizgebel brings a famous 15th century painting to life using a vibrant paint-on-glass technique.

Staff Pick Premiere: “The Battle of San Romano” by Georges Schwizgebel

December 15th, 2021