The Wolves Always Come at Night unfolds as a careful listening in the space between land and loss. We follow Davaa and Zaya, a herding couple rooted in centuries of Mongolian tradition, suddenly forced to leave the Gobi after a cataclysmic storm unravels their world. In Ulaanbaatar, the city’s noise and unfamiliar rhythms press against memories of open steppe, of wind and pasture, of a life measured by the seasons. The film moves with quiet intimacy, attentive to the gestures and silences through which grief and resilience take shape. Between the vastness of the land left behind and the confines of a new existence, it reveals how identity shifts, how belonging is renegotiated, and how the traces of home endure even when the ground itself has changed. In its unhurried gaze, the film becomes less about departure than about the invisible threads that hold people to place, and the strength it takes to carry them forward.
The Wolves Always Come at Night
From the masterful director behind Island of the Hungry Ghosts comes yet another delicate, intimate and marvelously beautiful film. A chronicle of grief, adaptation, and unmade ancestral bonds.
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Original title: The Wolves Always Come at Night
Year of Production: 2024
Duration: 96 min
Country of Production: Australia, Germany, Mongolia
Languages: Mongolian
Subtitles: English
Director: Gabrielle Brady
Cinematographer: Michael Latham
Editor: Katharina Fiedler
Sound Design: Carlos E. García, Zendmene-Erdene Ichinnorov
Music: Aaron Cupples
Producer: Julia Niethammer, Ariunaa Tserenpil, Rita Walsh
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Gabrielle Brady
Australia
Director: The Wolves Always Come at Night + Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Gabrielle Brady (b. 1984) is an Australian filmmaker whose hybrid documentaries forge collaborative, ethically grounded narratives in places where human and ecological worlds collide.
The first time I lived in Mongolia I was young, only just in my twenties. I was too young to connect in meaningful ways. By returning I wanted to have a different exchange. I spent time with old friends, people with a strong connection to land, to animals, in the city now, no longer embedded in the landscape. I felt a quiet loss that really affected me, moved me. The shadow of this story was everywhere. Upheaval was what set our story in motion, and the loss of what gets left behind in upheaval.
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