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Ang Ritwal (The Ritual)

Alex Tiernan · Philippines · Documentary / Sports · 8 min · ♥︎ 297

During Undas, the Filipino day of the dead, two streetballers guide us through Manila's tenements and cemetery slums, where basketball is close to a religion.

Basketball games among the graves reveal how ritual gives pride and identity to people living on the city's edge.

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 comm

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