Kneecap
August 1 - 15, 2024
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
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When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound - whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs, and hip-hop biopic Kneecap play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.
- Director: Rich Peppiatt
- Principal Cast: Kneecap, Michael Fassbender
- Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
- Year: 2024
- Producer: Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling
- Screenplay: Rich Peppiatt
- Cinematographers: Ryan Kernaghan
- Editors: Chris Gill, Julian Ulrichs
- Music: Michael 'Mikey' J Asante
- US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
- International Sales: Charades