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Kneecap bbfc-18

About the film

Director

Rich Peppiatt

Cast

Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, DJ Próvai, Simone Kirby, Michael Fassbender, Cathal Mercer, Arlene Martine Morris, Jessica Reynolds, Josie Walker

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. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue.

Content warning: depictions of drug use.