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Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward. However, today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against the clock.
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This intense healthcare drama follows nurse Floria through one grueling night shift in real-time, creating such authentic stress that audiences report feeling like they can 'smell the hospital' and are 'one beep away from flatlining.' Anchored by Leonie Benesch's extraordinary kinetic performance, the film uses long takes and escalating music to immerse viewers in the overwhelming reality of understaffed healthcare, making audiences viscerally understand why nursing shortages are a global crisis.
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Heart-Pounding
Real-Time-Tension
Healthcare-Hero
Anxiety-Inducing
Empathy-Builder
System-Exposé
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80
Feb 24, 2026

The clever and effective Late Shift depicts nursing as a permanent emergency that finds its equivalent in a breathless, anxious rhythm designed to jangle the staunchest nerves. For audiences who are into job-horror with a stranglehold, it qualifies as one of the most engrossing films in the festival.

Deborah Young
The Film Verdict
80
Feb 24, 2026

Night Shift does not go for full-on social realism. One wealthy patient comes across as something of a cliche. The details of Floria’s eventual meltdown would be more at home in a medical soap than in a film that, elsewhere, strives for rigorous representation of working practices. But Benesch carries us compellingly through those narrative convulsions to an ending that makes an epic of the everyday.

Donald Clarke
The Irish Times