Solas Nua and Sony Pictures Classics
present a private screening of
KNEECAP
Location: Regal Gallery Place (701 7th St NW, Washington, DC)
Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Time: 7:00pm
Price: Free, but must sign up to attend. It is a first-come, first-serve event, get there early to secure your seat.
Join Solas Nua and Sony Pictures Classics as we bring one of the best Irish films of the year to DC for a sneak peek before it opens in theatres on August 2nd. KNEECAP was the first ever Irish-language film to premiere at the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival, where it won this year's "NEXT Audience Award." Two weeks ago, at the Galway Film Fleadh, it won Best Irish film, Best Irish Language Feature Film and the Audience Award, a feat not achieved before in the Fleadh’s 36-year history.
At the screening, we'll be giving away a pair of tickets to see KNEECAP at DC's Union Stage on Sept 23rd.
Please join us for the private screening and a Happy Hour before the screening starts!
We’ll be gathering at The Irish Channel (around the corner from the theater) before the screening from 5:30-6:30 PM.
SYNOPSIS:
When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other.
Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue.
But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & 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 KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.
DIRECTED BY: Rich Peppiatt
WRITTEN BY: Rich Peppiatt
STARRING: Naoise Ó Cairealláin “Móglaí Bap”, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh “Mo Chara”, JJ Ó Dochartaigh “Dj Provaí”, Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Best, with Simone Kirby and Michael Fassbender
