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Late Shift
Director: Petra Volpe
Switzerland, Germany 2025 92 min

Healthcare + stress + compassion

By 2030, Switzerland is expected to face a shortage of 30,000 nurses, as more than a third of newly trained nurses leave the profession within four years. Globally, the deficit may reach 13 million. With Late Shift, writer- director Petra Volpe sounds the alarm, portraying a healthcare system stretched to its limits by following one nurse through one night in a single Swiss hospital.

Floria is working the late shift — and she knows the drill. Experienced, steady and resourceful, she navigates constant understaffing with a level of multitasking that borders on superhuman. Between administering treatments, coordinating emergencies and keeping the ward moving, she somehow still manages to offer comfort, presence, and emotional support. Because a nurse, the film reminds us, is never “just” a medical professional.

As the night unfolds, the pressure mounts, tasks multiply, tempers rise, and the emotional weight of the job intensifies. The smallest complaints and sharpest remarks from patients land heavily. What begins as a routine shift gradually becomes a portrait of a profession pushed far beyond what any one person can reasonably endure.

Late Shift offers an urgent, deeply human look at the realities of modern nursing. It’s a film that may just change the way you see the next nurse you meet. - MS