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LATE SHIFT

by Petra Volpe

synopsis

Floria, a nurse, works with great dedication and professionalism on the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital. She never puts a foot wrong, always has an open ear for her patients even in the most stressful of situations, and is immediately at hand in an emergency – or, at least, that is the ideal version of events. But in the harsh daily reality of the often unpredictable situation on the ward, things can look a little different. When Floria arrives for the late shift on one such day, a nurse is absent from the fully occupied and already chronically understaffed ward. Despite the hectic pace, Floria manages to look after a seriously ill mother and an old man urgently awaiting a diagnosis with just as much care and expertise as she does when attending to a private patient with all his special demands. But then she makes a disastrous mistake and the shift threatens to run completely off the rails. A nerve-racking race against time begins.

international title: Late Shift
original title: Heldin
country: Switzerland, Germany
sales agent: TrustNordisk
year: 2025
genre: fiction
directed by: Petra Volpe
film run: 92'
screenplay: Petra Volpe
cast: Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Jürg Plüss, Alireza Bayram, Ridvan Murati, Urbain Guiguemdé
cinematography by: Judith Kaufmann
film editing: Hansjörg Weißbrich
art director: Beatrice Schultz
costumes designer: Linda Harper
music: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
producer: Reto Schaerli, Lukas Hobi
co-producer: Bastie Griese
production: Zodiac Pictures International, MMC Zodiac GmbH, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR

Photogallery 17/02/2025: Berlinale 2025 - Late Shift

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Petra Volpe, Leonie Benesch, Judith Kaufmann
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