Kneecap

In the organizer's words:

• IR/UK 2024
• 105 min
• Director: Rich Peppiatt
• FSK: from 16 years
• German dubbing, Wednesdays: original version with German subtitles (OmU)

Screenings:

• Thu, January 23, 2025 - Sat, January 25, 2025 at 5:00 pm
• Tue, January 28, 2025 - Tue, January 28, 2025 at 5:00 pm
• Thu, January 30, 2025 - Fri, January 31, 2025 at 8:45 pm

Performers: Michael Fassbender, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh...

KNEECAP takes the audience on a crazy, high-energy sex, drugs & hip-hop trip through Belfast and tells the partly fictional story of the origins of the Irish hip-hop trio of the same name. The three members of the band play themselves, with two-time Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender ("The Killer") playing a supporting role.

When Liam Óg's party night ends in a police interrogation room, Irish teacher JJ, who is supposed to interpret for the English-speaking policewoman, not only helps him hide the LSD from his notebook. The lyrics in it by Liam Óg and his buddy Naoise about drugs, sex and resistance to the British establishment, together with a few beats from JJ's garage, become an unplanned wave that sweeps across Belfast. But the police, politicians and paramilitaries all have their own reasons for wanting to nip the band's success in the bud. Between radio boycotts and arson attacks, the three chaotic lads get caught in the crossfire and unexpectedly become the political and rebellious symbol of an entire generation.