2024 / 96 minutes/ hybrid documentary
‘La Lucarne’ Auteur section at ARTE
BBC storyville
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“Seamlessly blending documentary and fiction, The Wolves Always Come at Night is a timely reminder of the sometimes-tenuous foundations of the places we call home. Born to generations of herders in Mongolia’s immense Bayankhongor region, young couple Daava (Davaasuren Dagvasuren) and Zaya (Otgonzaya Dashzeveg) are raising their four children as they were brought up: with an intimate connection to the land and the animals they share their lives with.
After an unexpectedly severe sandstorm leaves a devastating impact in its wake, Daava and Zaya must make a once-unthinkable decision that will irrevocably change their family’s lives.
Director Gabrielle Brady lays bare the emotional ruptures of climate change and urban migration on Mongolian herders, told through the experiences of one family. Dagvasuren and Dashzeveg, also credited as the film’s co-writers, are revelatory. The quiet heartbreak they endure is etched on their faces as they drift ever further from the herding life and culture they deeply love, yearning for a day they can return to their home and hoping, likely in vain, that it doesn’t cease to exist”.
– JASON RYLE, TIFF
Festivals (ongoing)
San Francisco film festival, US 2025
Santa Barbara film festival, US 2025
True False Film Festival, US, 2025
Big Sky Film Festival, US, 2025
Doc point, Finland, 2025
Pune, India, 2025
One world, Prague, 2025
Uruguay film festival, 2025
Beijing IFF, 2025
Jeonju FF, Korea, 2025
Trento International film festival, Italy 2025
Toronto International Film Festival 2024, Platform Competition
Zurich Film Festival 2024, Documentary Competition
BFI London film Festival 2024, Main Competition
Ulaanbataar International Film Festival 2024
Rekjavik International Film Festival 2024
Mumbai Film Festival 2024, World Cinema
Adelaide Film Festival 2024, Documentary Competition
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2024, Main Competition
Seville Film Festival, 2024
RIDM Montreal Documentary Film Festival 2024
IDFA Amsterdam, 2024
Marrakech international film festival, Competition
Camerimage Film Festival, Poland 2024
Directed by: Gabrielle Brady
Written by: Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg, Gabrielle Brady
Featuring: Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg
Director of Photography: Michael Latham
Production Sound: Zendmene-Erdene Ichinnorov
Sound Designer: Carlos E. García
Original Music: Aaron Cupples
Field Producer / Lead Researcher: Dorjpagma Dugar
Editor: Katharina Fiedler
Producers: Julia Niethammer Chromosom Films (Germany) , Rita Walsh (Australia) , Ariunaa Tserenpil Guru Media
Co-Producers: Gabrielle Brady, Oyundari Khurelbaatar
Narrative therapy consultant: Poh Lin Lee
Editing Consultants: Laura Marie Wayne, Ainara Vera, Ian Purnell
Story Consultant: Florian Kunert
Executive Producers: Deanne Weir, Alexander Wadouh, Stefanie Plattner, Emma Hindley, Dan Cogan
Supported by : Screen Australia, BBC Storyville, German Federal Film funds, ARTE, Deanne Weir – WeirAnderson Films, Storming Donkey.
