Your worst nightmare goes viral in 89 minutes of secondhand embarrassment so potent it should come with a hazmat warning.
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.
Acting
Jonas Nay's physical cringe is almost unbearably authentic.
Direction
Riedhof turns mundane spaces into psychological torture chambers.
Director
Kilian Riedhof
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The German title 'Heimvideo' literally means 'home video,' emphasizing the domestic violation—Jakob's shame originates in his own bedroom, his supposed sanctuary, before the bullies even enter.
Director Kilian Riedhof based the story on real cases of 'Sextortion' among German teens in the late 2000s, though he deliberately kept the film's technology vague to avoid dating it.
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