Fighting the police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant sound, this rowdy Irish trio become the unexpected faces of a Civil Rights movement fighting to save their native language.
KNEECAP won seven British Independent Film Awards, including the top honour Best British Independent Film, it has been shortlisted for the OSCARS 2025 in the Best International Feature Film category and has just been long-listed in seven categories at the BAFTA’s!
Mark says:
“Yes, it’s laugh out loud funny and messy and irreverent, and feels like it’s happening now. But it also poses the question often omitted from the portrayal of a “revolutionary”; when it’s your dad who is mythologised by one half of the population and on the “most wanted list” of the other, maybe alive, maybe dead, who stays behind to bring up the family as a single parent…”
Reviews:
“Kneecap is fecking fantastic and searingly smart. A breakneck blast of the best kind of rebellion – music.” Nadine Whitney, The Curb.
“Touchpaper-recent history is boiled into the nothing-to-lose, dry-witted eloquence of its subjects and their appetite for rebellion.” Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies.
“Kneecap’s music is not for me. This is what I thought before I saw their film. I’ll save you reading the whole article. Go watch Kneecap. Go watch this movie. Learn Irish if you’re able.” Jay Rafferty, The Broken Spine.