KNEECAP opens in cinemas across Ireland today
Date Posted: August 8, 2024
Rich Peppiatt’s award-winning feature film KNEECAP opens in cinemas across Ireland today, 8th August, with international releases scheduled throughout the year.
Tickets are now available online through participating cinema websites.
This release follows The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA)’s announcement that KNEECAP has been selected to represent Ireland in the Oscar® International Feature Film category at the upcoming 97th annual Academy Awards.
Based on the origin story of the riotous and ground-breaking Irish-language rap trio Kneecap, the film stars the band’s Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí in their acting debuts alongside Academy Award® nominated Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs, 12 Years a Slave), Simone Kirby (Hidden Assets, Jimmy’s Hall), Jessica Reynolds (Outlander), Fionnuala Flaherty (Ros na Rún) and Josie Walker (Belfast, The Wonder). Set in west Belfast in 2019, it chronicles how fate brings the trio together and how they then go on to “change the sound of Irish music forever”.
KNEECAP was produced by Trevor Birney and Jack Tarling for Fine Point Films and Mother Tongues Films, with Patrick O’Neill at Wildcard acting as Co-Producer.
Funding for the film was provided by Northern Ireland Screen, the Irish Language Broadcast Fund, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, the BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), Coimisiún na Meán and TG4, with backing from Great Point Media.
