In the organizer's words:

"The point is not to give life more days, but to give days more life," is a thought from Cicely Saunders, the founder of palliative care. In Philipp Döring's four-hour observation of an institution, it flickers up in a presentation while a nurse is briefing a new member of staff. They are in the Franziskus Hospital in Berlin. Here, Döring documents several months between spring and summer, accompanies doctors on their rounds and during conversations with relatives, and listens to the team's internal exchanges, in which grievances are not concealed. The result is a protected space that follows its own laws. Here, dialogs about life's journeys are taken up and reflected upon, progress is celebrated and looming farewells are mourned. Palliative Care is also a film about language: oscillating between medical jargon and dialect, sometimes only producible using technical aids. Döring comes close to dying, very close, but with it also to life. His film has weight and impresses, yet does not crush under any burden of fate. It quickly becomes clear that life really only ends with the last heartbeat. (Carolin Weidner)

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