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- A poet sells his collection of comic books and action figures in order to afford to hire a male stripper on New Years Eve.
- In the darker side of Manila-by-night, tribes of youthful gangsters roam the streets in search of quick fixes and precarious thrills. World-weary Tondo throbs to the beat of of hiphop and freestyle gangsta rap, and to the scents and sensations of drugs and sex and violence. We witness this crepus-cular underworld through the eyes of ten-year-old Ebet. We follow him as he witnesses the deadly lives of teen age gang members in Tondo and the events that lead to their explosive confrontation. The Thugz Angels tribe members chance upon a blood-soaked body of a member of another gang. Police arrest a Thugz Angels member for the murder. The murdered teen is a member of the Sacred Brown Tribe, whose leaders vow to avenge their fallen member. They learn that Diablos gang members killed the SBT neophyte. During the wake, SBT members forge a reluctant alliance with the Thugz Angels, and assemble to raid the Diablos lair. The Diablos are older, bigger, and confident of their fighting prowess. They know that they are being targeted for revenge and prepare accordingly. Ebet lurks throughout the story, an enigma that is part innocent child and cynical adult. His loyalties are a mystery, and all that is clear to us is his love for his drug-addicted mother. As the clock ticks towards midnight, guns are loaded, and knives are sharpened. The battle is about to begin! And this is just part of the story. Hailed as a gritty portrayal of Manilas notoriously violent streets of Tondo, Jim Libirans Tribu is an ultra-realist depiction of youth corrupted by violence, death and decay, told documentary-style and punctuated by the poetically-charged street poetry of the cast. Realist Cinema with a social project. The filmmaker employed real-life gang members as lead actors in this film. These gangs were from rival clans working together to finish this difficult project triggered a wave of unification and peace in a large part of Tondo's ghettos.
- Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building; and in the fourth story, Baste saves his sister from Ariel.
- During one crazy night, long time friends Phi, Jhana and Elle stage a sleep-over vigil for an international beauty pagaent. Little do they know that they will be pitted against Jonel, a young jejemon frat initiate who makes the mistake of intruding into their sanctuary.
- "Life is not the destination, it is the journey" somebody once said. However, for a struggling porn director turned documentarianst and the young subject of his new piece, their lives are like the stations of the cross. They are filled with sorrow, pain, anger, hardships and ending in the realization of one's mission in life. Martin is a disillusioned film maker, looking for a cause to fight for. He ends up in Quiapo, harping against the Feast of the Black Nazarene. On his quest to expose the futility of praying to a God one cannot see, he meets Christian, a juvenile delinquent running for his life and seeking a cure for the mother he claims he does not love. Together, they brave the dangerous and sometimes fatal quest to touch the revered icon and fulfill their promises.
- A Filipino worker is on the death row for killing his employer. Because of a lady reporter who is bent on doing a full story about him, government officials are now trying to help him. But Fidel insisted that he killed his employer on purpose. Vega learned about his past- a boy-next-door type of person who grew up with a loving family. His profile doesn't fit the picture of a killer. Sister Lourdes, the Filipino nun who visits Fidel regularly wants to know the truth too. But can she handle the truth?
- An immersion into life before birth in the smallest home in the seams of Manila's premier international port. Virgie's family feeds on the fishes that lurk under the industrial ships of North Harbor. Their alternatives are packs of tasteless gelatin found in the same waters. Their entertainment comes from imagining stories behind DVD inlays of Hollywood films and a tabloid article on Hillary Clinton and a rat's ass. One morning when the fishes are dead and the sea's color is that of milk, uncertainty is born on the same floor where she eats.