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Release Date:

Mar 20, 2026

Runtime:

1hr 32m

Synopsis

Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward. However, today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against the clock.
Moviegoers are saying
This intense healthcare drama follows nurse Leonie Benesch through a grueling night shift that feels so authentic reviewers swear they can 'smell the hospital.' Shot with kinetic camerawork that never lets you breathe, it's being hailed as a Swiss version of medical dramas but with documentary-level realism that makes audiences both anxious and deeply empathetic.
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Heart-Pounding
Real-Time-Tension
Anxiety-Inducing
Empathy-Builder
Social-Eye-Opener
Performance-Powerhouse
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  • Jun 22, 2026

    The Swiss version of The Pitt. I kept waiting for Dr. Robbie to come in and give her a pep talk. Folks, be kind to nurses. I know we all get frustrated by hospital care, but the nurses are the best, most caring parts of a terrible system. Just. Be. Kind.

    246 Likes
    Geoff Ketchum
    Geoff Ketchum
    Aug 2, 2025

    God, what a stressful film, and I don't mean this in a bad way, but I think it's excellent how it makes us aware of the hard work of healthcare professionals and how, no matter how much you love what you do and how dedicated you are, you have to pour a part of your health…

    868 Likes
    Gerardo Fabre
    Gerardo Fabre
    Aug 30, 2025

    She’s such a better person than me because I would have kept the watch

    684 Likes
    Aurore
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    Aug 8, 2025

    Save one life and you're a hero, save a hundred lives and you're a nurse.

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    Kxrrim
    Kxrrim
    Feb 21, 2025

    just some decent down to earth empathy cinema. soft spot Emergency Room. social educational arthouse, heartbreaker 19-19. great script, strong character design, amazing Leonie Benesch. better than 80% of the competition - where this was expected to pop up initially - but I…

    477 Likes
    shookone
    shookone
    Feb 22, 2025

    "Es tut mir leid, wir sind heute nur zu zweit..." Leonie Benesch unter Druck - Teil 3. Macht wütend, traurig, nervös und pessimistisch. Könnte (oder müsste) für mich noch mehr an die Nieren gehen. Wird hoffentlich von genug Menschen gesehen, die eigentlich dazu gezwungen…

    430 Likes
    LeSchroeck
    LeSchroeck
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    Aug 11, 2025

    sometimes those long shots make me anxious AF 🤢 the AUDACITY to ask for another room thinking someone else would be snoring, when YOU were the one snoring 😭 “According to the WHO, the global shortage of nursing staff is a global health risk. In Germany, according to the…

    348 Likes
    Bara Prima
    Bara Prima
    Jul 30, 2025

    could smell the hospital from this movie... was just one beep away from flatlining

    336 Likes
    Sahil Memon
    Sahil Memon
    Nov 15, 2025

    Extraordinary film built on the singular , kinetic performance of its lead and some incredible camerawork. Moves like a thriller but ends on empathy and talks of the looming crisis by just documenting a late shift nurse ( in what seems like real time) in one night .…

    319 Likes
    Anurag Kashyap
    Anurag Kashyap
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  • Emmelie Schuite
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    I watched this on my very first day of internship for my high school and I thought it was an intense and beautiful film, but it was a nice and a beautiful movie to have seen.

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    healthcare professionals need to be paid literally whatever they want

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    Very nice

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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.

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Deborah Young
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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.

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Donald Clarke
The Irish Times
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Frequently Asked Questions

How long is Late Shift (2026)?
The movie is 1hr 32min long.
What's Late Shift (2026) about?
Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward. However, today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against the clock.