Burning Out

Name: Burning Out
Director: Jérôme le Maire
Released: 2016

Jérôme le Maire 2016

Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, 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?

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Running Time:

85 min.

Spoken Languages:

French

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Jérôme le Maire

Producers:

Arnauld de Battice, Isabelle Truc

Cinematographers:

Jérôme le Maire

Editors:

Matyas Veress

Production Companies:

AT-Production, Zadig Productions, Louise Productions

Press

Cineuropa

In this documentary, Jérôme Le Maire, who spent a year getting his bearings before getting out his camera, offers a spontaneous and sympathetic view of a situation where intense conflict is taking place between the different professional bodies, as a direct result of the reorganization of the working system, all carried out in the name of efficiency. What is shocking in Burning Out is the brutal speed at which the new process is implemented.

Sylvain Gressier
Modern Times Review

"It also is refreshing to see medical professionals who we normally only encounter as impersonal figures hidden behind surgical masks and scrubs, as multi-faceted people."

Bernard Dichek

Festival Participation

Magritte Awards, Belgium - 2018
Winner Magritte Award Best Documentary (Meilleur documentaire)
IDFA - Feature Length Competition - 2016
Millenium International Documentary Film Festival - 2017
DOXA Documentary Film Festival - 2017
Docville Int. Documentary Film Festival - 2017
Best Belgian Documentary
CPH:DOX - 2011
Bergen International Film Festival - 2017
Visions du Réel - 2017
Open City Docs - 2017
Take One Action Film Festival - 2017
Tempo Documentary Festival - 2017
Magnificent 7 Festival - European Feature Documentary Film Festival - 2017
Comptoir du Doc - 2017
Doc Cévennes - Festival international du documentaire en Cévennes
Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival - 2017
Nominee DOCU/RIGHTS Best Film
Festival international des programmes audiovisuels de Biarritz

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