THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT

In this film, local legends about wolves that can burst into the night and obliterate everything serve as a metaphor for a looming threat that comes to fruition: after a devastating sandstorm in the Gobi desert, a Mongolian herding family is forced to settle in the overcrowded and hyper-polluted outskirts of the capital. Australian filmmaker Gabrielle Brady, who surprised with her visual talent in her debut Island of the Hungry Ghosts (Best Documentary at Tribeca and Visions du Réel), creates a hybrid of documentary observation and the filming of retrospective experiences with her protagonists –also co-writers – to trace an urgent and intimate tale of climate migrations that mean bidding farewell to a culture based on its bond with the land. Maybe we should have listened to the boy who cried wolf.