A deaf teenager struggles to fit into the boarding school system.
The Tribe is a tough, confrontational watch but, while its juvenile delinquents do terrible things, Slaboshpytskiy manages to generate considerable sympathy for their situation.
Original, engrossing and extremely confrontational, The Tribe treads the dark path between misery porn and masterpiece.
Squeaking shoes and grunts of anger are the only soundtrack to this brutal and supremely strange Ukrainian film about a school for the deaf falling into anarchy.
Maybe not quite ‘enjoyment’, but definitely rapt engagement.
Set in a school for deaf children, this film without speech features a superb non-professional cast, but in places is too cruel to watch.
The Tribe: the film with no dialogue or music.
General release. Check local listings for show times.