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Filipino tribe documentary about the Taaw't Bato of Palawan
Free Documentary follows a tribal family in Palawan as they navigate urban relocation, social prejudice, and the pull of their ancestral life in the mountains and caves.
Relocation to town
The tribe tries to adapt to life among markets, wages, and city rules.
Ancestral cave life
The film revisits their history as people long known for living in caves deep in the jungle.
A difficult choice
The family weighs schooling, work, healthcare, and the chance to return home.
Topics
Market life and stigma
The film follows the family into town, where they are watched, mocked, and treated as outsiders.
Daily life in relocation
A small family home, work, and ordinary routines reveal how difficult the new life has become.
Return to the mountains
The story turns toward their choice to leave the city and go back to the jungle.
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I came to Palawan to discover the T batu's urban life and now here they are heading back home up there in the mountains there's no time to mull it over I decide to follow them turning a deaf ear to the museum administrator's warnings if you do not plan your trip going there it's very hard very
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What viewers are saying
Comments focus on the tribe’s dignity, the loss and displacement caused by relocation, and corrections about how the market scenes were interpreted.
Comment themes
Respect for the community
Viewers describe the Taaw't Bato as resilient, beautiful, and deserving of protection.
Context matters
Several comments note translation issues and push back on the film's framing of people in the market.
Personal connection
Some viewers share their own ties to Palawan or to indigenous life and displacement.
Audience signals
Verified tribe name
Comments identify the group as the Taaw't Bato.
Government relocation
The sample comment notes that after relocation, one family decided to return.
Strong emotional response
Viewers respond to the hardship, cultural loss, and dignity shown in the film.
Representative public comments
1978, the world found out about the existence of a previously undiscovered tribe, the Taaw't Bato: a few hundred individuals hidden in the heart of the jungle on the Philippine island of Palawan. After being relocated by the government, one family decided to return.
I am Visayan. Sadly, the interpreter is lost in translation somehow. The woman in the public market speaks normal Tagalog with Visayan accent. "Visayan accents sound harsh but they're actually happy and excited especially the guy giving the shirts. The woman on the other hand, is not mistreating them. The interprete...
3:39 - What the lady on the market is actually saying: "They live in the mountains and they are really poor. Coz' you can see it on their situation, their clothes; they really don't have anything. That's why I really feel sorry for them." The lady is actually emphatizing with them. Not like how the documentary protr...
Thank you for this video. I left the life style of the Batu when i was 7. I crew up most of my life in Florida US. I m 50 now and I just remember how sad I was when I came to US. 1983. I find myself always in the swamp forest of Florida connecting with the pass tribe of Timuca in Gemini park, and Calusa tribe. The t...
Had the honor of living on Palawan with my family for several months back in 2012-2013. There are several tribes thriving there. Thriving doesn’t mean wearing expensive clothes or looking like the rest. They are at peace and joyful. May their ways be protected and they continue to thrive.
These beautiful people are a treasure! They should be valued and respected by all.
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