Runtime (Minutes): 07:41
In Manila’s tenements and cemetery squatter slums, devotion to basketball verges on sacred. Over the course of ‘Undas’ (the Filipino day of the dead), two ballers take us into the heart of the streetball scene where community pride is the ultimate prize. ‘Ang Ritwal’ is about the power of communal rituals — sacred or profane — and their role in creating a sense of identity for those on the city’s fringes.
