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Ghost Elephants
Film / 2026

Ghost Elephants

Directed by Werner Herzog
Documentary

★ 7.7/10Audience rating

In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.

The story

In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.

Cast

Werner HerzogSelf - Narrator (voice) Steve BoyesSelf Kerllen CostaSelf - Environmental Anthropologist XuiSelf Xui DawidSelf KobusSelf Gary TrowerSelf - Anthropologist, San Culture Specialist Jordana MeyerSelf - Molecular Ecologist, Stanford University Regedor KaketcheSelf - King of the Nkangala António LuhokeSelf - Luchazi Hunter Melissa HawkinsSelf - Curator of Mammals, Smithsonian Institution Mary Faith FloresSelf - Molecular Technician, Smithsonian Institution
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Katherine SolariSelf - Conservation Genomics, Stanford University Ellie ArmstrongSelf - Evolutionary Genomics, UC Riverside

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