Film · Drama, Documentary

Burning Out (2016)

Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?

Director

Jérôme Le Maire

Writers

Jérôme Le Maire, Pascal Chabot

Country

France, Switzerland

Language

French

Release date

November 18, 2016

Original title

Burning Out, dans le ventre de l'hôpital