[1] A coproduction of companies from Australia, Germany and Mongolia, the film blends both documentary and fictionalized elements in its portrait of Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg, a Mongolian couple who are forced to abandon their familiar lives as shepherds and move to Ulaanbaatar after their livelihood is disrupted by climate change.
[6] For Point of View, Rachel Ho wrote that "The Wolves Always Come at Night is a slow burn by design — Brady maneuvers us quietly through the ebbs and flows of Daava and Zaya’s personal internal conflict so that we feel every detail and beat with depth rather than a passing superficiality.
The universality of Daava and Zaya’s situation can be felt by families and communities around the world with less emphasis being placed on lifestyles connected to the land and earth and focus pushed on the commercialism of city life becoming increasingly common.
It’s in the specificity and vulnerability of Daava and Zaya, and the willingness with which they allow audiences into their lives, that offers us the chance to take a 30,000 foot perspective and breaking us free from our own socio-economic bubbles.
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.