Swiss entry to the 98th Academy Awards® – Best Intl. Feature

Petra Volpe's multi-award-winning film HELDIN (LATE SHIFT), Switzerland's submission to the 98th Academy Awards® – BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM screens on Wednesday, February 11th at 2:30 pm, 4:45 pm, and 7:00 pm at the Gardena Cinema.
Presented in cooperation with  the South Bay Film Society and the Goethe-Institut

HELDIN (LATE SHIFT)
Switzerland/Germany (2025), 92 Min., Swiss-German / German with English Subtitles
Writer-Director: Petra Volpe, Cinematographer: Judith Kaufmann, Editor: Cast: Leonie Benesch, Sonja Riesen, Alireza Bayram, Selma Jamal Aldin, Urs Bihler, Margherita Schoch, Urbain Guiguemdé, Elisabeth Rolli, Jürg Plüss, Lale Yavas, Producers: Reto Schaerli, Lukas Hobi, Production Company: Zodiac Pictures.
 
Twenty-six patients. One nurse. The clock ticks down in this gripping medical drama directed by Petra Volpe (THE DIVINE ORDER, ). Leonie Benesch (SEPTEMBER 5, THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE) stars as nurse Floria, a dedicated professional straining to meet the accumulating demands placed on her as one late shift pushes her to a breaking point. Inspired by real-life nurse Madeline Calvelage’s powerfully immediate memoir, 'Our Profession is Not the Problem—It’s the Circumstances,' LATE SHIFT stunned audiences this year at the Berlin Film Festival with its fast-paced, thrilling glimpse into the unmanageable workload and extreme pressures faced by today’s healthcare workers. Switzerland's entry in the Academy Awards® race for Best International Feature Film. (Synopsis courtesy of HIFF) 

AWARDS:
Haifa International Film Festival: Golden Anchor Award Best Feature Film 2025 (Winner)
European Film Awards: Feature Film2026 (shortlisted)
Deutscher Kamerapreis - Kamera (Fiction Kino) 2025 (Winner) Judith Kaufmann

PETRA VOLPE studied at the Konrad Wolf Film University in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Her feature filmdebut DREAMLAND (Traumland, 2014), was nominated for four Swiss Film Awards. In 2017, Volpe gained worldwide attention with her film THE DIVINE ORDER (Die göttliche Ordnung). Petra Volpe also wrote the screenplay for the film Heidi, the successful SRF series Labyrinth of Peace and The Golden Years (Die goldenen Jahre), which became the most successful Swiss feature film of 2022 in German-speaking Switzerland and was sold internationally, including in the USA. In addition to her Swiss projects, Volpe works as a screenwriter and director in the United States. She is currently working on her fourth feature film, Frank & Louis. Petra Volpe lives and works in Berlin and New York. In Germany she is represented by DIE AGENTEN and in the US by Range Media Partners.