“Diving Into the Mess and Chaos of Cinema Doesn’t Have to Exist Apart from Care and Ethics”: Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night

Gabrielle Brady’s The Wolves Always Come at Night follows Davaa and Zaya, a rural Mongolian couple with four young daughters whose dream to continue the traditional herding way of life they’d always known is upended by a cataclysmic storm; which forces them, like so many of their friends and neighbors before, to finally relocate to the outskirts of the urban capital Ulaanbaatar in search of work. It’s a deceptively simple tale of loss — of both livelihood and identity — poignantly and cinematically captured by the talented Australian filmmaker’s lens. Yet what makes the docufiction drama, crafted with a primarily Mongolian team, so remarkable and powerful is that it’s actually co-scripted with its dedicated stars, who bravely recreate their real-life journey of displacement down to the emotional toll it takes on all. Filmmaker caught up with Brady (2018’s Island of the Hungry Ghosts) not long after the TIFF 2024-premiering film was selected as Australia’s entry for the 2026 Oscars (Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature).

To read my interview visit Filmmaker magazine.