December 2025

The Wolves Always Come At Night: Capturing a Family, and Their Animals, In Crisis

Within hours of receiving permission to proceed with production of her second documentary feature, The Wolves Always Come At Night, filmmaker Gabrielle Brady contacted cinematographer Michael Latham, who had photographed her 2018 film The Island of the Hungry Ghosts, about human and crab migration on Christmas Island. Like Ghosts, Brady conceived her new film as a poetic study of a society rattled by nature in turmoil. Wolves focused on Davaasuren Dagvasuren (Daava) and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg (Zaya), a Mongolian couple who uproot from herding horses and goats in the climate-ravaged Mongolian desert to seek new life in the city. Brady met her subjects via a local journalist, executive producer Dorjpagma Sugar (Dopa), who had been seeking...more