LATE SHIFT

With Leonie Benesch

Switzerland’s Oscar contender for Best Foreign Film follows a powerful emotional trajectory over the course of one harried nurse’s night on the understaffed surgical floor of a high-tech Swiss hospital.  Nurse Flora maintains her mental equilibrium by leaning into routine through a demanding all-night shift that brings her briefly into the lives of unsettled patients for unexpected moments of beauty and profound human connection.  As Flora, actor Benesch, award-winning star of the 2024 Oscar-nominated THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE, conveys an intuitive understanding of the loneliness and life-and-death fears of her charges as the story evolves with wonderful grace against a backdrop of large and small crises.  In German, Turkish and French with English subtitles.