Linenhall Film Club
Late Shift
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
8pm
Tickets:
Full €7
Concession €5
Linenhall Film Club Season Ticket available - €35
Contact Box Office for bookings: 094 9023733
(8 Films Autumn/Winter Programme 2025)
Nurse Floria clocks in for a late shift in a busy but understaffed ward. She attempts to juggle the needs of all her patients and their families - from siblings awaiting news of their seriously-ill mother, to a wealthy patient demanding private care. As the evening wears on, the pressure begins to get to Floria - and a simple but potentially grave error pushes her over the edge.
Leonie Benesch (The Teachers’ Lounge) gives a stellar performance in Petra Volpe’s (The Divine Order) new film. This is a tense, grounded and compassionate look at the reality of modern nursing, which also serves as a passionate plea for all staff and patients to receive the resources and support they deserve.
Festivals:
Berlin International Film Festival, 2025
Paying tribute to an underappreciated profession, Late Shift offers a portrait of workaday courage
A finely-strung hospital drama [...] starring the phenomenal German actor Leonie Benesch which will twang on the nerves of any past, present or future patient, and the hearts of those who owe a debt of gratitude to a nurse.
Volpe’s script [...] is stacked with various disparate narrative matters of literal life and death, but it’s Benesch’s presence that gives the film much of its tension, as we wonder at what point her character’s brittle efficiency is going to snap.
