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Music Box Films has acquired the North American distribution rights for Petra Volpe’s “Late Shift,” which was revealed today ...
The German actor Leonie Benesch has an issue with erratic pacing in films. "I find it awful when a character talks and then ...
Switzerland has tapped Petra Volpe’s Late Shift ( Heldin) as its official submission for the 98th Academy Awards in the best ...
German actress Leonie Benesch (September 5, The Teachers’ Lounge) feels that we’ve been inundated with medical dramas on ...
Music Box Films acquires US rights to Petra Volpe’s Late Shift, Switzerland’s official Oscar submission, starring Leonie ...
Switzerland’s Swiss Federal Office of Culture on Tuesday said it has selected writer-director Petra Volpe’s drama Late Shift ...
Oscar season is about to kick into high gear with fall festival season just around the corner. The deadline to submit ...
Directed by Petra Volpe, Late Shift stars Leonie Benesch (The Teachers' Lounge, September 5) as Floria, a nurse in the ...
Leonie Benesch gives one of the best performances of 2025 in the hospital drama Late Shift, playing no-nonsense Swiss nurse ...
One can imagine screening this wrenching Swiss film in a double bill with Laura Carreira’s recent On Falling. Two studies of a woman at work. Two protagonists at the end of their tether. Two ...
Leonie Benesch grew up in Germany without a TV and first saw footage — some of it re-created — from the Munich Summer Olympic attacks in 1972 while filming 'September 5.' ...
The actress Leonie Benesch as Floria, a night nurse working in an understaffed hospital in the film “Late Shift.” To prepare for the role, Benesch said she shadowed nurses in a hospital for a ...