Our Editor, Charlie Swinbourne, has written this article for BBC News’ Ouch disability blog about the new film The Tribe, which is out this Friday.
Extract:
The Tribe is a Ukrainian film, directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, set in a deaf boarding school where everyone communicates in sign language. When a teenager joins the school, he wins acceptance into a network dealing in crime and prostitution. But when he breaks the unwritten rules of the tribe, his future is threatened.
The film is very naturally and subtly acted, with few cuts and lots of long uninterrupted takes where the camera stays still for minutes at a time. Watching The Tribe feels like peeking into an alternative reality, a troubling world where the deaf pupils have become a law unto themselves, marginalised so that they can be exploited.
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kb
May 18, 2015
I’m very disappointed it doesn’t have subtitles as not every deaf person uses BSL or understands it. There really isn’t enough for non BSL users. Yes I’m learning but not every deaf person comes into contact with other BSL users. In my case my whole family are hearing. Why isn’t there more social things for non BSL deafies??
Sarah Bird
May 19, 2015
The film is in Ukranian sign language (not BSL) – so everyone British (BSL user or not) will be in the same position watching this film! I’m just hoping they’ll show it all around the UK – I can’t see it in my local cinema yet.