Wild horses are running out of places to belong.

They wait for each other. They grieve, protect and love in ways that are heartbreaking to watch and impossible to look away from. And the world they know is vanishing.

In Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park, wild horses face aerial culling and removal. At California’s Mono Lake, mustangs are being taken from the landscape in enormous numbers. Two continents, two herds, the same question: what happens to a wild animal when there is nowhere left for it to be wild?

Millions watched Sibylla rescue a newborn foal from a creek and for a moment, felt intimately connected to a life they had never known. Where the Quiet Lives begins inside that connection.

Its cinematic language is immersive and observational, drawing us into the private lives of wild horses and the fragile world they call home.

“Some lives ask only to be recognised before they disappear. In seeing them, we remember what it means to be human.”