The Longest Night

A seductive, heartbreaking and scandalous portrait of sex-trafficking horrors in South America. Dana, an aging sex worker and mother of an chronically ill 8-year old daugther, struggles to pay her pimp on time. Her body carries bruises and evidence of her tumultuous life, and these marks reveal her biggest obstacles: vulnerability, weakness, and chemical dependence. Each body part shown represents the ruins, both financial and natural, as well as her quest to settle debts and overcome the failure to set herself free. "THE LONGEST NIGHT is a supremely confident piece of work, dealing with extremely difficult subject matter in a way that is both sensitive and rightfully harrowing." (entertainment-focus.com)

Keywords

  • #AccelerateAction | Internationaler Frauentag 2025
  • Creatives: Debut Films
  • Love+: Sexuality
  • Screen: Latin America
  • Screen: Mexico
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Storyline: Daughters
  • Storyline: Not just Sex
  • User Favorites: Top 25
  • Addiction
  • conflict
  • latin america
  • the edge
  • women
  • work

Actors

  • Noëlle Schonwald
  • Cristian Mercado
  • Jaime Tamariz
  • Ariana Freire
  • Nadine Muñoz Cervantes

Director

  • Gabriela Calvache

Crime, Thriller


1h 34min


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Ecuador
Mexico
2019
This Ecuadorian thriller takes on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and the opioid crisis in a unique visual style.

This Ecuadorian thriller takes on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and the opioid crisis in a unique visual style.


A seductive, heartbreaking and scandalous portrait of sex-trafficking horrors in South America.


Dana, an aging sex worker and mother of an chronically ill 8-year old daugther, struggles to pay her pimp on time.


Her body carries bruises and evidence of her tumultuous life, and these marks reveal her biggest obstacles: vulnerability, weakness, and chemical dependence. Each body part shown represents the ruins, both financial and natural, as well as her quest to settle debts and overcome the failure to set herself free.


"THE LONGEST NIGHT is a supremely confident piece of work, dealing with extremely difficult subject matter in a way that is both sensitive and rightfully harrowing." (entertainment-focus.com)

Cast & Crew