Ewolo: One man’s forty-year search for his family
A Witness Documentary from Al Jazeera. Forty-two-year-old street food trader Cristel Ewolo lives in Switzerland, where he was mysteriously abandoned as a child. From an extract of his birth certificate, he knows that his country of origin is the Republic of the Congo.
Without identity documents, he has never been able to travel to Africa. Without the paperwork, it seems like mission impossible. But thanks to his filmmaker friend, he overcomes the bureaucratic hurdles and is finally able to make the journey.
In Congo, it is a chance encounter that leads him home to discover his extraordinary family who were told that he was dead. Ewolo is a film by Andrea Canetta.
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Meteorites may be the only truly extra-terrestrial items it is possible to find, buy or own on Earth.
Their rarity has created a global trade, fed by a fascination with these dark rocks from outer space. Most meteorites on the market come from Morocco, where the inky-black rocks are easier to spot in the arid mountain landscape.
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