Director Rich Peppiatt spoke with MovieWeb’s Julian Roman about his new film, Kneecap, which is based on and named after the Irish rap group of the same name and stars its three members. The film is a shot of adrenaline, a modern-day Trainspotting, one of the best of the year.

When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & 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.

But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound – whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic Kneecap play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.

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