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The Tribe

Love and hate need no translation.

2014 · 2h 12m · UNRATED Crime, Drama
Directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

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Overview

Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization, when he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the group."

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Fresh

An audacious and successful gamble from a first-time feature filmmaker who is now officially on his way.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

A startlingly original, at times unbearably intense drama from Ukraine that - on a moment-to-moment, scene-by-scene basis - blows up expectations on every level: narratively, visually and in terms of performance.

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh

The Tribe is a brilliant formal achievement that marks Ukrainian writer-director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky as a filmmaker to watch.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh

It's got a story every bit as bold and fearless as its approach - the kind of primal story that's beyond the ken of language.

Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic
Fresh

Slaboshpitsky frames his problematic protagonists with painterly meticulousness, their feral posturing and nakedness conveyed with improbable beauty.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

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