Ghost Elephants

Last updated August 31, 2025

Ghost Elephants
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Ariel Leon Isacovitch
Narrated by	Werner Herzog
Cinematography	Rafael Leyva
Edited by	Marco Capalbo Johann Vorster
Music by	Ernst Reijseger
Production company	Sobey Road Entertainment
Release date	August 28, 2025 (2025-08-28)(Venice)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Ghost Elephants is a 2025 American documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. It follows Steve Boyes, a South African naturalist, in his search for what he believes to be an undiscovered species of African elephant on the highland plateau of Angola.^[1]^[2] The film premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival in August 2025.

References

↑ Bradshaw, Peter (2025-08-28). "Ghost Elephants review – Werner Herzog embarks on a mission to track down giant jumbos". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-08-30.
↑ Roxborough, Scott (2025-08-29). "Venice: Werner Herzog Doc 'Ghost Elephants' Sells to National Geographic (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2025-08-30.

External links

Ghost Elephants at IMDb

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Filmography Bibliography
Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Bad Lieutenant (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Salt and Fire (2016) Family Romance, LLC (2019) Bucking Fastard (TBA)
Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Gesualdo (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Into the Inferno (2016) Meeting Gorbachev (2018) Nomad (2019) Fireball (2020) The Fire Within (2022) Ghost Elephants (2025)
Short films	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1968) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)
Books	Of Walking in Ice (1978) Conquest of the Useless (2004) The Twilight World (2021) Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2022)
Related	Lena Herzog (wife) Lucki Stipetić (brother) Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) Burden of Dreams (1982) Location Africa (1987) Incident at Loch Ness (2004) Plastic Bag (2009) The Client
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