Kneecap: a film about the controversial Irish group

The story of the Kneecap will be told in a film. It is simply entitled “Kneecap”, will be released in Italian cinemas on August 28 and will retrace the parable of the trio that sings in the Irish Gaelic, is censored by the radio and makes discussing wherever it goes to play (not least the Glastonbury Festival, where at the end of June they attacked British Prime Minister Keir Starmer), from the origins to today.

The film is presented as “a comedy biopic”, written and directed by Rich Peppiatt (“One Rogue Reporter “). The protagonists are the members of the band Naoise ó Cairealláin “Móglaí Bap”, Liam óg óg ó Hannaidh “Mo Chara” and JJ ó dochartaigh “Dj proof”, struggling with their controversial ascent to success in the music scene, marked by a convinced claim of the Irish language. In the cast also Michael Fassbender in the role of Arlo, the mysterious father of Naoise, an Irish patriot who pretended his death to escape the British authorities.

“Kneecap” was presented last year at the Sundance as the first film in Irish language of the Festival, and was selected to represent Ireland as the best film in a foreign language at the Oscar 2025. The film is a psychedelic adventure to discover how a trio of young people from Belfast has become the unlikely reference figure of a civil rights movement in the protection of his mother language.