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Drama ;

Advisory: has some violent and explicit content

 

Critic Reviews:

“ (A) grand and graphic depiction of contemporary Tondo, Manila, its raw passion and searing violence, its terrible social conditions and conflicting social mores, and its people’s coruscating embrace of both the sacred and the profane, the filial and the tribal, the tender and the vicious. ” - CINEMALAYA 2007 JURY on TRIBU’s Best Picture Award

“ [TRIBU] had enormous power, if quite a raw one, literally and aesthetically, not unlike the Spike Lee movies about the underbelly of America. But at that, the world of ‘Tribu’ makes the ghettoes of New York look almost like a walk in the park, even Central Park. ” - CONRADO DE QUIROS, columnist, Philippine Daily Inquirer

 

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Every night, juvenile tribes prowl the streets of Tondo. An explosive hiphop, freestyle gangsta celebration of inner city Manila. The dangerous unlit streets and labyrinthine alleyways in the ghetto district of Tondo in Manila serve as claustrophobic backdrop to a random killing that triggers a wild and bloody gang war. Through the eyes of a 10 year old boy, we are immersed into the normal, impoverished, tough life of Tondo. Through him, we encounter the juvenile yet murderous leaders and members of various gangsta tribes -- adolescent thugs and petty criminals whose pastimes are sex, drugs and their eloquently poetic street rap, delivered in their own unique tongue-twisting machine gun-style.