 * UMCG - University Medical Center Groningen (The Netherlands) * Association Maison Pour Tous (France) * Aneo (France) * Festival du Film Altermondialiste (France) * Festival Cinéma d’ATTAC * CPH:DOX (Denmark) * Dok.Fest Münich (Germany) * FIPA (Festival international des programmes audiovisuels de Biarritz) (Paris, France) * IDFA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Tempo Documentary Festival (Stockholm, Sweden) * Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland) * DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival (Finland) * Docville / Fonk (Belgium) * Take One Action Film Festival (Edinburgh, UK) * Bergen International Film Festival (Norway) * DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Vancouver, BC, Canada) * PariSciences (France) * Millenium International Documentary Film Festival (Bruxelles, Belgium) * Comptoir du Doc (Rennes, France) * Docudays UA (Kharkiv, Ukraine) * One World Romania (Bucharest, Romania) * Doc Cévennes - Festival international du documentaire en Cévennes (Lasalle, France) * Open City Docs (London, UK) * Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Poland) * Fidadoc (Agadir, Maroc) * Magnificent 7 Festival - European Feature Documentary Film Festival (Serbia) * J'ai Vu un Documentaire (Lorient, France) * Economia (The Netherlands) AWARDS: * Magritte for Belgium Best Documentary  |
Burning Out
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? DIRECTOR’S PRESENTATION: All my films came from my passion for humans. Burning out is the gripping story of a global epidemic: the sadly famous burn-out. Three years ago I attended a conference about the burn-out syndrome in the prestigious Saint-Louis hospital in Paris. I was shocked when I realized that the conference was not to help the patients but to help the doctors, to help the doctors themselves. I felt the conference was like an S.O.S. I introduced myself to a doctor, I told her I wanted to make a film about the burn-out. Luckily she saw me as someone who could help them. She was my “access” to the hospital. She would become one of my protagonists. The one who wants to stop the fire from inside. After each screening of the film I’m meeting people who tells me that this is exactly what is going on in their company and that they recognize it all from their own lives. Unfortunately it seems like this situation at the French hospital is more the rule rather than exception. Our modern world has transformed hospitals into health factories and patients into objects. Efficiency, productivity, performance has become the mantra everywhere for the managers. For decades we have known what is happening if we are stressing animals … they will eat each other. But what happens when we stress people? - Jérôme LE MAIRE OFFICIAL WEBSITE: BURNING OUT PRESS IMAGES: (click to preview)    
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