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. In this real-life story, fate brings a world-weary Belfast schoolteacher into the orbit of a self-confessed ‘low life scum’ duo, 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.

‘The film’s infectious energy, use of in-camera effects, animation and all manner of jiggery pokery is as mesmerizing and giddy as it was when Danny Boyle used many of the same tricks for Trainspotting.’ Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter

‘An audacious film that completely obliterates the expectations of the musical biopic genre.’ William Bibbiani, TheWrap

Pan mae tynged yn dod ag athro ysgol blinedig o Belfast ben-ben â dau sy’n 'faw isa'r domen' yn eu geiriau eu hunain, gan esgor ar grŵp hip hop heb ei debyg. Maen nhw’n rapio yn eu hiaith Wyddeleg frodorol, ac mae KNEECAP yn prysur ddatblygu'n arweinwyr annhebygol mudiad hawliau sifil i warchod eu mamiaith.

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