Tribu Synopsis

Synopsis In the darker side of Manila-by-night, “tribes” of youthful gangsters roam the streets in search of quick fixes and precarious thrills.

member. They learn that Diablos gang members killed the SBT neophyte. During the wake, SBT members forge a reluctant alliance with the Thugz Angels “(A) grand and graphic World-weary Tondo s, and assemble to raid depiction of throbs to the beat of of the Diablos’ lair. hiphop and freestyle contemporary Tondo, gangsta rap, and to the The Diablos are older, Manila, its raw passion scents and sensations bigger, and confident and searing violence, its of their fighting of drugs and sex and violence. terrible social conditions prowess. They know that they are being and conflicting social We witness this targeted for revenge mores, and its people’s crepuscular underworld and prepare through the eyes of accordingly. coruscating embrace of ten-year-old Ebet. We both the sacred and the follow him as he Ebet lurks throughout profane, the filial and the witnesses the deadly the story, an enigma lives of teen age gang tribal, the tender and the that is part innocent members in Tondo and vicious.” child and cynical adult. the events that lead to His loyalties are a CINEMALAYA 2007 JURY on their explosive TRIBU’s Best Picture Award mystery, and all that is confrontation. clear to us is his love for his drug-addicted mother. The Thugz Angels tribe members chance upon a blood-soaked body of As the clock ticks towards midnight, a member of another gang. Police guns are loaded, and knives are arrest a Thugz Angels member for sharpened. The battle is about to the murder. begin! The murdered teen is a member of the Sacred Brown Tribe, whose leaders vow to avenge their fallen

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