Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night

Review by Andrew F Peirce

Documentarian Gabrielle Brady immerses herself in the act of collaborative storytelling, working alongside her subjects to bring their truth to life in an act of radical hybrid filmmaking. In her latest film, The Wolves Always Come at Night, we follow Davaa (Davaasuren Dagvasuren) and Zaya (Otgonzaya Daashzeveg), parents to four children who work as nomadic goat herders in the Bayankhongor region of Mongolia. Their land endures harsh winters and sharp summers, and as we witness in the film, receives the brunt of the impact of storms that roll in from the Gobi Desert. It’s these increasing storm events that force Davaa to question whether he will have to engage in the culture-disconnecting act of relocating his family to the city for work.

As with her previous film, The Island of the Hungry Ghosts, The Wolves Always Come at Night sees Brady continue her exploration of individuals who are worn and weathered by a rapidly shifting world that inflicts change upon them, untethering them from the connection to land and culture that they have maintained for generations and setting them adrift from their communities, and most cruelly, their families.

Read the full review via The Curb here:

www.thecurb.com.au/adelaide-film-festival-review-the-wolves-always-come-at-night/