Lions of Namibia: The Kings of the Desert
Lions of Namibia: The Kings of the Desert
| 27 May 2015 (USA)
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On the edge of the Namibian desert, cattle farmers are looking for new land to graze their animals. The lions, who occupied these previously wild spaces, are hunted by herd guards, or even slaughtered when they attack cows. Will and Lianne Steenkamp lived for two years in a territory occupied by a 17-year-old lioness - a "queen" -, her two daughters and their five lion cubs. This film traces the process of empowering the young: after learning to hunt alone, they will have to leave the family pack and find young females to reproduce. A necessity all the greater as their species seems threatened.

Reviews
ThiefHott Too much of everything
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.