A voice that claims to be the ghost of Pepe, the first and only hippopotamus ever killed in the Americas, tells his story. Beginning in Southern Africa and moving to South America, Pepe narrates his eventful life—from being owned by Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar to his final days roaming free.

Taking inspiration from an infamous runaway hippo, this shapeshifting adventure won Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale. Traveling through timelines, planes of consciousness, and dazzlingly diverse forms of experimentation, Pepe summons specters of violence with eclectic, mystical style.