The Wolves Always Come at Night

96 min

Mild themes and coarse language

A young Mongolian couple's lives are uprooted when climate change forces them to leave their rural home for the city, where they must adapt to an unfamiliar way of life.

A young nomadic couple, Davaa and Zaya, live in the Mongolian desert with their four children, sheep and horses. Their loving and harmonious lifestyle is threatened by unpredictable weather, and encroaching animal predators. Forced to make the heartbreaking decision to uproot themselves and move to the city, the family must quickly adjust. In this foreign terrain, they band together, all the while haunted by dreams of their herding past and ancestral homeland.

Director
Gabrielle Brady
Cast
Davaasuren Dagvasuren, Otgonzaya Dashzeveg
Genre
Documentary, Drama
Rating
PG (Mild themes and coarse language)
Runtime
96 min