The Wolves Always Come at Night

Director Gabrielle Brady (Australia) will be present after the screening for a conversationabout her spectacular journey in creating this film, and about her distinct methods for shaping these emotional cinematic journeys.

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.

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.

Director’s Statement:

The Wolves Always Come at Night is born of collaboration—an in-between space where grief, land, and myth converge. It’s a memory-space, where co-authored scenes make real what might otherwise vanish.