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?

IDFA AMSTERDAM, Hollande, novembre 2016 – Compétition internationale long métrage documentaires
RAM DAM FESTIVAL, Tournai, Belgique, janvier 2017
FIPA BIARRITZ, France, janvier 2017 – Panorama de la création
MAGNIFICIENT 7, Serbie, février 2017
RENCONTRES IMAGES MENTALES, Bruxelles, Belgique, février 2017
CPH:DOX, Danemark, mars 2017
MILLENIUM FESTIVAL, Bruxelles, Belgique, mars 2017
DOCPOINT, Suède mars 2017
ONE WORLD, Bucarest, Roumanie, mars 2017
DOCUDAYS UA, KYIV, Ukraine, mars 2017
VISIONS DU RÉEL, NYON, Suisse, avril 2017
DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL, Varsovie, Pologne, mai 2017

Press kit (French - PDF)

Written press & web

Le Temps - «Burning Out», malaise à l’hôpital (Switzerland - French) : https://www.letemps.ch/culture/ecrans/burning-out-malaise-lhopital?srsltid=AfmBOoqidohYQkRch3ZpfO08-J-QtRdZ8aPdOggMSAgXhn6rkD8SIq1q

Cinergie - Jérôme le Maire - Burning out (Switzerland - French) : https://www.cinergie.be/actualites/jerome-le-maire-burning-out