Sony Pictures Classics has released a poster and trailer for Kneecap, the upcoming comedy drama from writer-director Rich Peppiatt.
The film tells the story of the Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap, as they become the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
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.
Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, DJ Próvai stars as themselves alongside a cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Josie Walker, Simone Kirby, Cathal Mercer, Arlene Martine Morris, Adam Best, Fionnuala Flaherty, Donagh Deeney, Cathal Mercer, Matthew Sharpe, and Jessica Reynolds.
SEE ALSO: Read our ★ ★ ★ ★ review of Kneecap here
Kneecap arrives in cinemas on August 2nd.
