Isabel Soloaga

After devastating personal losses, three women across three generations come together to ride across Mongolia on a four-month horseback journey across Mongolia and through the vast Gobi Desert, one of the most remote and unforgiving landscapes on Earth. Through Riders follows their shared expedition as an act of survival, reflection, and connection. Moving on horseback through extreme terrain, the riders confront pain and grief not in isolation but in motion, discovering how landscape, animals, and deep friendship can hold space for trauma, death, and the search for meaning. The film is co-created with the herder families who guide the journey [...]

After narrowly escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in August 2021, 9 year old Masoma and her family begin a new life in Sacramento, California. Growing up in America: Life After the Taliban, is an intimate documentary following her family’s journey of building home after war.