Kneecap returns to the Maine Film Center after closing out this year's Maine International Film Festival. When fate brings Belfast, Northern Ireland schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-described “low life scum” Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other, a group called Kneecap. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue (or to adapt it: a language encumbered with 40 words for “stone” now has one for “stoned”). But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries, and 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 with a most definitely non-documentary approach, Kneecap play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.

In English and in Gaelic with English subtitles.

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