THE TRIBE So this school seems fun.
  • THE TRIBE So this school seems fun.

My dad was a sign language teacher, and growing up, my parents would speak sign language at the dinner table when they didn't want me to know what they were talking about. Whereas I saw two people speaking a foreign language, The Tribe director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy apparently saw "a miracle... [people] directly exchanging feelings and emotions without words."

That's how Slaboshpytskiy described watching kids at a school for the deaf line up across from his own school in Ukraine, and that became his inspiration for The Tribe, which is, yes, a two-hour-plus movie told entirely in sign language with no subtitles (on the plus side, it has a decent amount of teen sex, and a 69-ing scene I would describe as "strangely tender").

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