“I’ve heard people saying: that finding the elephants means finding ourselves.” National Geographic has unveiled the official trailer for the documentary film titled Ghost Elephants, the latest Werner Herzog-directed doc film to get immersed within. The film originally premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival last year, and it also played at Telluride, AFI Fest, Stockholm, and many other fests as well. In the mist-covered highlands of Angola (a country in West Africa), deep within its forests, a mystery endures: the elusive ghost elephants of Lisima, the potential only living descendants of the largest land mammal ever recorded. We’re introduced to Dr. Steve Boyes – a conservation biologist and leader of the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, who’s determined to prove their existence. In order to find the elusive elephants, Boyes and fellow NatGeo Explorer Kerllen Costa have teamed up with three KhoiSan master trackers — Xui, Xui Dawid, and Kobus — to succeed where advanced technology could not. I saw this in Venice, it’s a fascinating doc from Herzog. It’s less about the elephants, much more about these people’s obsession with finding these elephants and what it means about our place on Earth. Worth a watch, of course, Herzog’s films always are. // Continue Reading ›
