Happyland (2010)

Name: Happyland
Director: Jim Libiran
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010
Cast: Mo Ibrahim, Joseph Anthony Cerdeña, John Andreau, Peter Amores

1h 35m IMDb

Drama

It’s not easy for ambition to survive in a place like Tondo, one of the poorest and roughest slums of Manila. But thirteen-year-old Chrisval de Castro, who has lived in Tondo all his life, isn’t afraid to dream big. Almost every day, the first year high school student and part-time padyak boy can be spotted practicing football on the streets outside his house. He dreams of playing football for the Philippine national team one day.