Mind your language.
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. When fate brings a Belfast teacher into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
As they struggle to make their mark, and external pressures threaten to pull the plug on their dreams, the trio weave a narrative that transcends music, and tells the story of how they became an unlikely political symbol of youth culture, national identity and cultural pride.
Starring the members of the real Kneecap rap group, Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvai, as well as Michael Fassbender (Shame, Inglorious Basterds, X-Men franchise), Kneecap is the first film in the Irish language to premiere at Sundance Film Festival.
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