'' The Tribe '' ( , '' Plemya '' ) is a 2014 Ukrainian drama film written and directed by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy . Starring Hryhoriy Fesenko , Yana Novikova and Roza Babiy , the film is set in a boarding school for deaf teenage students , where a novice scholar is drawn into an institutional system of organized crime , involving robbery and prostitution . He crosses a dangerous line when he falls for one of the girls to whom he 's assigned to pimp . The film is entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with no subtitles . It won the Nespresso Grand Prize , as well as the France 4 Visionary Award and the Gan Foundation Support for Distribution Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival 's International Critics ' Week section
2014 Cannes Film Festival
2014 Cannes Film Festival
The Tribe (2014 film)