‘Kneecap’ Sweeps Awards at Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh
variety.comAlex Ritman Irish-language music biopic “Kneecap” has dominated the awards on home soil at the 36th edition of the Galway Film Fleadh, which concluded last night on the west coast of Ireland.
The film, which caused a stir in Sundance earlier this year where it was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, won three out of a possible three awards it qualified for in Galway, where it had its Irish premiere as the festival opener.
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.
From writer/director Rich Peppiatt, “Kneecap” follows the wild coming together and rise of real-life Belfast hip hop trio Kneecap — all playing themselves, alongside Michael Fassbender in a supporting role — in a story awash in sex, drugs, music and politics that is both anarchic and a rallying cry for the defence of native cultures and languages.
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