Petra Volpe had long been thinking about the role of nurses and the integral role they play in society but it wasn’t until the aftermath of the pandemic that the Swiss writer-director felt compelled to make them the subject of her latest movie, Late Shift .

“It’s such an intense job and people take it for granted that there are these women who do this for us,” said Volpe at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International. “And then Covid came and everybody was clapping [for the nurses]. I was in New York at the time, and it was so clear the importance of nurses and what was going on in these wards and how traumatic it was and also, how quickly it was forgotten afterwards. The world just moved on but the problems remain the same. A lot of nurses are burnt out and traumatized with PTSD.”

She

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