A deaf mute teenager 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.

Direction: MYROSLAV SLABOSHPYTSKIY

Script: MYROSLAV SLABOSHPYTSKIY

Production: VALENTYN VASYANOVYCH, IYA MYSLYTSKA, DENNIS IVANOV

Cinematography: VALENTYN VASYANOVYCH

Editing: VALENTYN VASYANOVYCH

Production Design: Vlad Odudenko

Costume Design: ALENA GRES

Sound: SERGIY STEPANSKIY

Cast: GRIGORIY FESENKO, YANA NOVIKOVA

Original Title: PLEMYA

Original Language: Ukrainian

Film Production Country: Ukraine

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Statement of the Director/s
It’s been my old dream to do homage to the silent movie. To make a film that can be understood without a single voiced word. It’s not that I was thinking about some kind of a European “existential” movie in which the heroes would keep silence throughout half the film. And besides, actors were not silent in the silent movie. They communicated very actively through a wealth of byplay and body language. They could communicate emotions and feelings without a line to say. And it is not by incident that most of silent movie stars had come from the pantomime. This is exactly why I’ve always wanted to shoot a film about the life of deaf-and-dumb people. With no speech and with no subtitles. And with the participation of real deaf mute people.

While I was working on the short DEAFNESS, which I considered to be a kind of a pilot for a future full feature, I made many contacts with the Ukrainian deaf-and-dumb community and the heads of the Ukrainian Societies of deaf people. I also came to know the leaders of the informal “shadow” community, who revealed to me their isolated world from inside, the ways and the rituals of this community, one of the most closed ones.

This film is completely based on my school memories and on what’s been told me by my consultants from the world of deaf-and-dumb people. With all its seeming simplicity and seeming violence, this is a film about very young people. And very young people are capable of strong pure feelings: love, hatred, fury, anger, despair. One does not need words to express these emotions.

I see this film as a humanistic story of love and initiation – a story of entering the adult life in the cruel world.

Biography of the Director/s
Director Bio
Born in 1974, in Kiev (Ukraine) Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy graduated from the filmmaking department of the Kiev State Institute of Theatre and Arts, named after I. K. Karpenko-Kariy, majoring in feature film directing. He has worked at film studios in Kiev (the Dovzhenko Film Studio) and in St. Petersburg (the Lenfilm Studios). His second film “DIAGNOSIS” has been nominated for Golden Bear. His next short film “DEAFNESS” is his second Berlinale outing and also got a Golden Bear nomination.

In the autumn of 2010, he received a grant for development of his first full-length feature film “THE TRIBE“ from the Hubert Bals Fund of Rotterdam Film Festival.
In 2012, he won the Silver Leopard of the Locarno Film Festival’s competition program "Pardi di domani" for "Nuclear Waste”. In 2013, «Nuclear Waste” was nominated for EFA Award. Member of EFA, since 2013.

Filmography of Director

1995 The Guard (diploma short)
2006 The Incident (short)
2009 Diagnosis(short)
2010 Deafness (short)
2012 Nuclear waste (short)

Awards Won
CANNES CRITICS'WEEK GRAND PRIX, FRANCE 4 DECOUVERTE and GAN FOUNDATION, TARKOVSKY FF GRAND PRIX, ARMENIA EREVAN GRAND PRIX, PALIC SERBIA - GRAND PRIX, MOTOVUN CROATIA GRAND PRIX

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