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:	52/83 min.
Subject(s):	Activism, Business, Economy, Health, Human Rights, Labor, Science, Society
Language(s):	French
Director(s):	Jérôme le Maire
Producer(s):	Arnauld de Battice, Isabelle Truc
Cinematographer:	Jérôme le Maire
Editor(s):	Matyas Veress
Production Company:	AT Docs

Festival Participation

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
Festival international des programmes audiovisuels de Biarritz

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