The Embassy of Mongolia in Canberra and ANU Film Group cordially invite you to the screening of The Wolves Always Come at Night.
About the movie:
A young Mongolian couple Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg with their four children, sheeps and horses live in the desert. Their harmonious lifestyle is threatened by harsh and unpredictable weather and climate change, and encroaching animal predators.
This difficult situation forced them to make heartbreaking decision to uproot themselves and move to the city. The young couple must quickly adjust to the city livelihood but are haunted by their past nomadic lives.
Critical response about the film from Sabina Dana Plasse of Film Threat wrote that the film “begs the question of the mental instability of those directly subjected to climate change, what is happening in this world, and how we are all connected spiritually to nature. Watching a family uproot their lives and be displaced is difficult, even more so in a foreign land. However, the filmmakers made great efforts to seamlessly provide an emotional understanding of this remote place that relates to all viewers, no matter where one is from. One minor but clever element is the folk songs used throughout, which acutely reflect what is happening. Overall, this is a cinematic journey that unfolds leisurely yet engagingly and offers caution to what might be on the horizon”.
The film premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and was subsequently screened in competition at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival in June 2025.
95 min | 2024
Director Gabrielle Brady
Starring: Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg
Language: Mongolian with English subtitle