Green Borders

Green Borders is a feature documentary that explores the impact of the climate crisis through a deeply human perspective, revealing how tradition, community and conservation become essential tools for adaptation and resilience. We tell the story of climate change not as an abstract global threat, but as a force that reshapes everyday life, transforming landscapes, relationships and the fragile balance between people and wildlife. It is a film about borders—between wilderness and human settlements, conflict and coexistence, separation and connection.

 

Set in Zambia, Green Borders follows the people living and working on the frontline of one of the defining environmental challenges of our time. As the invisible border between humans and elephants begins to disappear, the film explores how coexistence itself must be reimagined in a rapidly changing world.

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SYNOPSIS

 

Between Livingstone, Lusaka and Kafue National Park, where ancient elephant migration routes increasingly intersect with expanding human settlements, the documentary follows the many realities confronting one of Zambia's most pressing environmental challenges.

 

We spend nights alongside the Elephant Response Team as they guide elephants away from villages using only their voices, experience and flashlights. We meet researchers tracking elephant movements to understand how changing landscapes are altering migration patterns, conservationists caring for orphaned calves at the Elephant Nursery before returning them to the wild, and the communities who live every day with the consequences of sharing their land with Africa's largest mammal. As every fatal encounter fuels public outrage and reignites calls for elephant culling, the film gives voice to all sides of the debate, exploring the delicate balance between protecting human lives, conserving elephant populations, and finding a future in which coexistence remains possible.