It’s an intimate look at the fraying of nerves that happens when dealing with the fragility of the human body on a daily basis, a portrait of the caretaker as a soldier in the trenches. Late Shift‘s villain is not mortality, however, so much as burnout.

It never loses grasp of its compassion for its lead, but does neglect coloring in the context.

Benesch is deeply moving as an angel of mercy in a hellish, often thankless but absolutely necessary profession.

What begins as a normal nursing shift turns into a race against time that is both engrossing, exhausting and heart-wrenching from beginning to end. It’s not hard to see why this film was Switzerland’s submission for the 2025 International Feature Oscar.