World Premiere, Competition Section of the 69th Venice International Film Festival 2012
The Sea Gypsies of Tawi-Tawi
The Bajau have been a nomadic, seafaring people for most of their history. Many Bajau still practice that same lifestyle to this day. Click here for more.
Pirates and poverty are forcing
the Bajau to give up their sea-
faring way of life.
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still found in some of
these places, but they are rapidly abandoning their
boats and returning once
again to the land; perhaps
within another decade or so, their nomadic watery way
of life will belong entirely
to an era of the past.
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"The Bajau tribe is a peace-loving tribe. Conflict with
other tribes like that of the Tausug is often dealt with
by fleeing to other places."
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Scattered throughout the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines live the Sama Badjao, a people nobody wants. Badjao means "man of the seas." By tradition, the people are sea nomads, traveling by boat from one island to the next in search of
a fishing harvest. But the Sama Badjao are known to other tribes living in the same area
as 'palau' or 'lumaan,' both meaning "godforsaken."
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