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Late Shift

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Dedicated nurse Floria (Leonie Benesch) navigates the relentless pace of her hospital's understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As her overnight shift intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time.
Late Shift

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Critics Consensus

Equal parts harrowing and unsentimental in its evocation of the brutal grind of hospital work, Late Shift clocks in as an accomplished character study with a superb Leonie Benesch front and center.

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David Fear Rolling Stone 3d
It’s an intimate look at the fraying of nerves that happens when dealing with the fragility of the human body on a daily basis, a portrait of the caretaker as a soldier in the trenches. Late Shift‘s villain is not mortality, however, so much as burnout. Go to Full Review
Peyton Robinson RogerEbert.com 4d
3/4
It never loses grasp of its compassion for its lead, but does neglect coloring in the context. Go to Full Review
Thelma Adams AARP Movies for Grownups Mar 20
5/5
Benesch is deeply moving as an angel of mercy in a hellish, often thankless but absolutely necessary profession. Go to Full Review
Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) 7h
Volpe’s film deftly examines one of the many cracks in the modern healthcare system: the overworked and underpaid frontline care workers who are just trying to keep it together while keeping their patients alive. Go to Full Review
Daniel Pemberton Spectrum Culture 3d
Late Shift is a rigorous and anxiety-inducing portrait of a nurse's grueling shift at an understaffed Swiss hospital, with unflinching depictions of the everyday calculus of hospital labor amid a failing system. Go to Full Review
April Neale AWFJ.org 3d
Leonie Benesch delivers a riveting performance as a nurse navigating the relentless demands of an overnight shift. This is medical vérité: cleaning incontinent patients, managing bad behavior, and keeping cool when things are at a fever pitch. Go to Full Review
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Stephen C @bob25009 Mar 20 Success in 1 hour and 32 minutes. See more George Z @Gzaver Jan 13 Swiss writer-director, Petra Volpe’s solid day-in-the-life work day of an overworked nurse in an understaffed Swiss hospital during the night shift. 
An immersive drama, that feels like a documentary. 
Starring a terrific Leonie Benesch, who I loved in (Teachers' Lounge) 
There is no back story, like HBOs excellent "The Pitt" series, it’s a slice of working life in a hospital. 
A love letter to nurses whose jobs are in short supply worldwide. John Lennon once sang, "A Working Class Hero is something to be. If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me." See more Lisbeth C @LizBeth25 Dec 27 The film recreates a sad reality and touches the heart! See more Fong Kok Hoong F @RT29722865 Dec 23 In German, the original title HELDIN means "heroine" and this Switzerland‘s Oscar submission for 98th Academy Awards is a heartfelt tribute to the overworked nurses in understaffed hospitals all over the world as the camera follows one of them on a regular working night as she attends to a marathon of responsibilities akin to navigating menacing circumstances in a thriller. See more Vince Q. @Vincedeq Nov 6 Starring Leonie Benesch. Taught, driving performance delivers the enormity of the responsibilities of the shift nurse. Benesch gives us a performance to rival her work in Babylon Berlin (2017) and The Teacher’s Lounge (2023), where she garnered the equivalent of a German Academy Award. See more Rob R @RT44160369 Sep 21 Gripping. Some great acting by the patients ! See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Dedicated nurse Floria (Leonie Benesch) navigates the relentless pace of her hospital's understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As her overnight shift intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time.
Director
Petra Biondina Volpe, Hansjörg Weißbrich
Producer
Reto Schärli, Lukas Hobi
Screenwriter
Petra Biondina Volpe
Distributor
Music Box Films
Production Co
Zodiac Pictures
Genre
Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 20, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 32m