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Irish-Language Hip-Hop Trio In ‘Kneecap’ Are “The Latest In A Canon Of Storytellers Stretching Back Thousands Of Years”, Director Says – Contenders International
Language and its role in shaping identity was a driving theme for Rich Peppiatt when he embarked on making Kneecap, Ireland's Oscar submission.
The film, set in post-Troubles Belfast, follows three hedonistic Irish language speakers who form real-life hip-hop group Kneecap and become the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue. It follows Belfast schoolteacher JJ and rappers Naoise and Liam Og as they rap in their native Irish language, overcoming police, paramilitaries and politicians who try to silences their defiant sound. That, to me, what just a lovely revelation to see them in that context and I think whatever the legacy that they leave behind through their music, through the film, it’s the impression they’ve made on the language itself.”
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