FAM September Film - Kneecap

KNEECAP

2024 | USA, Ireland |M15+ | 106 mins | Some Irish Gaelic language, English subtitles.

Winner of this year’s Audience Award at Sundance, the beginnings of Irish hip-hop group Kneecap are retraced in Rich Peppiatt’s ground-shaking comedy-drama.

When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and 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.

Armed with a blend of native Irish and English verses and furious, politically-charged rhymes, the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant ketamine-fuelled sound. A fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic co-starring Michael Fassbender, KNEECAP is a rollicking trip into the meaning of pure defiance.

Contains strong coarse language, drug use, nudity and sex scenes.

Website: https://kneecapfilm.com/synopsis/

Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYfp-hKxZQ

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kneecap

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kneecap-film-review-2024#google_vignette

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/22/kneecap-review-irish-language-hip-hop-trio-in-fiercely-riotous-belfast-romp

 Join us for some snacks and wine after the screening.

Doors will open at 6:45pm for a 7:30pm start. Please be seated by 7:25pm. 

 Film & Arts Mackay acknowledge the

Yuwibara people, the Traditional Custodians of Mackay, and pay respect to Elders  past, present and emerging.