The Tribe is a movie to watch out for this spring as it has been whipping up a storm on the festival circuit since it debuted at Cannes last May.
The Tribe
The movie is tipped to be unlike anything else that we will see this year, and the brand new poster for the film has been unveiled.
The Tribe sees Miroslav Slaboshpitsky make his feature film directorial debut as he makes the leap from shorts for the first time: Nuclear Waste and Deafness are two of the short projects he has under his belt. He has also penned the screenplay.
The Tribe has been winning acclaim on the festival circuit, playing at Sarajevo, Toronto and London - the film won the Sutherland Award For Best First Feature at London - and there are only a few weeks before we get to see what all the fuss is about.
The Tribe is written and directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy & tells the story of a deaf mute teenager who enters a specialized boarding school where, to survive, he becomes part of a wild organization - the tribe.
His love for one of the concubines will unwillingly lead him to break all the unwritten rules within the Tribe's hierarchy.
The story is told purely through sign language without the use of subtitles or voiceover & features a cast comprised entirely of non-professional, deaf actors including leads Grigory Fesenko as Sergey and Yana Novikova as Anna.