DIRECTOR: Jim Libiran
WRITER: Jim Libiran
PRODUCTION CO:Cinemalaya Foundation, 8 Glasses Productions
RELEASED: 18 October 2009
GENRES: Drama
Stars: Karl Eigger Balingit, Charena Escala, Havy Bagatsing,
In the darker side of Manila-by-night, tribes of young hoodlums meander the avenues looking for snappy fixes and unsafe rushes. World-fatigued Tondo throbs to the beat of hiphop and free-form gangsta rap, and to the fragrances and vibes of medications and sex and savagery. We witness this crepus-cular underworld through the eyes of ten-year-old Ebet. Hailed as a dirty depiction of Manila's famously rough roads of Tondo, Jim Libiran's Tribu is a ultrarealist portrayal of youth defiled by savagery, passing and rot, told narrative style and punctuated by the beautifully charged road verse of the cast.
