Heldin [Late Shift] (2025) is a film that deserves to be watched by everyone, especially nurses. Few films have addressed the global nursing shortage with such clarity and sensitivity.
The film presents, in a very plain yet powerful way, how structural problems in healthcare systems place a heavy burden on healthcare professionals, particularly nurses who spend the most time with patients, and how this burden inevitably shapes the care process.
One of its strongest aspects is its refusal to frame these problems as individual failures, instead locating them within the system itself. Despite this weight, the film also makes visible healthcare workers’ efforts to preserve their humanity.
The class-based commentary conveyed through the watch scene is especially striking. What more could one ask for…
It has become one of the films I will certainly refer to in my teaching.
* Heldin [Late Shift], (2025), Petra Biondina Volpe (Director), Switzerland
