Music Box Films has acquired the North American distribution rights for Petra Volpe’s “Late Shift,” which was revealed today ...

Switzerland has tapped Petra Volpe’s Late Shift ( Heldin) as its official submission for the 98th Academy Awards in the best ...

Music Box Films acquires US rights to Petra Volpe’s Late Shift, Switzerland’s official Oscar submission, starring Leonie ...

German actress Leonie Benesch (September 5, The Teachers’ Lounge) feels that we’ve been inundated with medical dramas on ...

Oscar season is about to kick into high gear with fall festival season just around the corner. The deadline to submit ...

The German actor Leonie Benesch has an issue with erratic pacing in films. "I find it awful when a character talks and then ...

Directed by Petra Volpe, Late Shift stars Leonie Benesch (The Teachers' Lounge, September 5) as Floria, a nurse in the ...

One can imagine screening this wrenching Swiss film in a double bill with Laura Carreira’s recent On Falling. Two studies of ...

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 ...

Suspicion has poisoned the middle school where Ms. Nowak (Leonie Benesch) has been teaching for a few months. Her admirable dedication to engaging with students and striving for fairness prove ...

Benesch has close friends from London and Berlin in town, and they’re sharing a house in Hollywood for a few days. Moving here to L.A. permanently is not on her mind, though of course, one day ...