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qIFF: KNEECAP
March 15, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Kneecap is ballsy, brave and one of the best music biopics ever made. A sweary, crude and brilliantly political Irish comedy, the headline-grabbing Belfast rap trio blend 8 Mile, Trainspotting and The Hunger into a hedonistic but heartfelt film for the ages. The film is a semi-dramatised biopic of the formation and rise of the controversial, headline-grabbing Irish language hip-hop trio, recalling how rappers Móglaí Bap and Mo Chara would write lyrics to reflect their everyday Belfast lives as well as their nights spent scoring and selling drugs or running from the police. One night, after being arrested and refusing to speak English to the police, local music teacher JJ O Dochartaigh is brought in to translate from Irish. Taking Chara’s side after discovering his lyrical prowess, the humble teacher encourages him and Bap to pursue music and offers to lay down some beats – in bid to make Irish language music relevant to a new generation and “set the dodo free”.
