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Original name: The Wolves Always Come at Night
English name: The Wolves Always Come at Night
Year: 2024
Run time: 96 minutes
Language: Mongolian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Australia, Mongolia, Germany
Director: Gabrielle Brady
Producer: Julia Niethammer, Ariunaa Tserenpil, Rita Walsh
Cast: Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg, Ariuntsetseg Davaasuren, Ukhaanzaya Davaasuren, Amin-Erdene Davaasuren, Nandin-Erdene Davaasuren
Screenplay: Davaasuren Dagvarsuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg, Gabrielle Brady
Cinematographer: Michael Latham
Editor: Katharina Fiedler, Bfs
Sound Designer: Carlos E. García
Music Composer: Aaron Cupples
Production Company: Chromosom Film, Guru Media, Over Here
World Sales: Cinephil
Gabrielle Brady makes hybrid films, working in creative collaboration with film protagonists. Her award-winning debut Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018) screened at over 80 international film festivals and had a theatrical release in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia. The film has won over 30 international awards including; Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, Byens-Chagoll Award at Visions du Reel, Human Rights Award at IDFA, Grand Jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival and Best Documentary Film Adelaide Film Festival, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Brady studied Documentary Direction at La Escuela Internacional de Cine in Cuba.
It is spring in the desert of Bayankhongor province in Mongolia, where young nomadic couple Davaa and Zaya live with their four kids, caring for their birthing animals. The kids spend the nights telling each other ghost stories of disappearing gers. Davaa awakes startled to check the herd for wolves, but finds nothing there. Local herders discuss the auspicious sighting of two ‘red stars’. One fateful day a violent dust storm hits the families camp and they discover half their animals killed. They make the painful decision to leave for the city and Davaa is forced to sell his beloved horse. Setting up their home in the cities ‘districts’, the family begin adjusting to their new life. Davaa starts work at a gravel factory but becomes increasingly haunted by the presence of his lost animals.
