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Ghost Elephants

Ghost Elephants

Aug 27, 2025
99 min
Documentary
8.0/ 10
3 votes

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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 by technology but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.

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Sobey Road EntertainmentNational Geographic Documentary Films

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