Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap.
Childhood best friends Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh and Naoise Ó Cairealláin live chaotic lives in modern day Belfast, selling drugs and partying to pass the time. When they inadvertently cross paths with JJ Ó Dochartaigh – a frustrated school teacher and Irish language activist – the trio form an unexpected bond.
Kneecap is formed: an anti-establishment musical experiment celebrating the creative and political possibilities of Irish Gaelic. Facing resistance in their personal lives, as well as pressure from both sides of the Republican-Unionist divide, the members of Kneecap fight to make their mark and become an improbable symbol of Irish youth culture, national identity and cultural pride.
Raucous, infectious and unapologetically rude, Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature tells the real life story of how an anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue.
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"It is simply the best movie ever made about being young in Belfast"Critic's Notebook
"The film’s infectious energy, use of in-camera effects, animation and all manner of jiggery pokery is as mesmerizing and giddy as it was when Danny Boyle used many of the same tricks for Trainspotting"The Hollywood Reporter
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