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Tribe is a Philippin film of genre Drama
Tribe (2007)
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Add to a movie listTribu (English: Tribe) is a 2007 Filipino crime drama film directed by Jim Libiran, released in its home country of the Philippines. It stars real life gangs members from the films setting in Tondo, Manila. The tagline is "Every night, juvenile tribes prowl the streets of Tondo. An explosive hiphop, freestyle gangsta celebration of inner city Manila." Critics were quick to point out his gritty portrayal of Manila's Tondo district:
"Libiran thoroughly knows his geography. His Tondo reeks of the true effluent of human sewage, pulsing with the din and blare of its noise and confusion, to the howl of animals led to their slaughter in Vitas. But amid the racket are also humanity and tenderness, as shown by the warm interaction during family dinners of the gang members.
"This is Tondo in all its singeing but lyrical heights, in all its ballast and flare. Housewives pounce on a Meralco inspector, who uses binoculars to read the meters perched on extraordinary heights beyond human tampering, to protest high power rates. Gangs foster fellowship though the brutality of hazing and the camaraderie of drinking sessions. They celebrate life in and out of season, even as they seem bent on a bloodbath for the killing season. There’s no let-up to life and passion."
Most of the actors were, in fact, residents of Tondo, Manila itself, and most were still active in street gang activities in the area during the making of the film. The filmmaker employed real-life gang members as lead actors in this film. Fifty-two (52) teen-agers who were members of seven (7) rival clans, agreed to work together to finish this difficult project and triggered a wave of unification and peace in a large part of Tondo's ghettos.
According to Variety Magazine the film "... takes the viewer deep inside a Manila slum blighted by drugs and gang violence, "Tribe" is a disturbing snapshot of a community in chaos."
Critics described it as (a) "...powerful but downbeat portrait of a world ruled by the vicious circle of poverty and crime, focuses on its main victims, the young generation, angrily self-destructing itself out of sheer desperation."
The film received nine awards and 14 nominations: Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinemanila International Film Festival and the Gawad Urian Awards. Tribu also won the Pari de l'Avenir 'Bet for the Future award' at the Festival Paris Cinema awards, the only non-European film to accomplish this.
Synopsis
Taking place at present times, Tribu tells the story of street life in the slums of Tondo, Manila, a lower class suburb in the northwest portion of the city of Manila. The film is told from the viewpoint of a young ten-year-old boy named Ebet who We follow as he witnesses the deadly lives of teen age gang members in Tondo and the events that lead to their explosive confrontation. The film follows Ebet who witnesses three youths being initiated into the Thugz Angels gang. In the opening sequence of the film, the 10-year-old boy explains the genesis of the tribes. They exist, he says, because the children are poor. They are poor because they or their parents lack jobs. In Tondo, the boy says, you have to be tough or you die. Even a child needs to be tough. But in the hell that is Tondo, he says, even a child can be God.Comments
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