Films that Make Noise: Kneecap
Together with The Hague pop venue PAARD, we are launching the film series Films that Make Noise. A series of high-profile protest films in which the connection between music and social change takes center stage. We kick off on Friday 23 January with the film Kneecap!
About the film
When fate brings bored music teacher JJ together with friends Naoise and Liam Óg, it marks the beginning of an unprecedented Irish hip-hop act. Rapping in their mother tongue, the rebellious rap trio Kneecap breaks through in Belfast and soon becomes the figurehead of a civil rights movement aimed at saving the Irish language. As the debate erupts in the public arena, police and politicians do everything they can to silence the anarchistic trio. In this wildly original sex-, drugs- and hip-hop biopic, Kneecap plays themselves and delivers a global rallying cry in defense of their cultural heritage.
Practical information
Spoken language: Irish Gaelic and English
Subtitles: Dutch
Date: Friday 23 January
Time: doors open from 19:30, film starts at 20:00
Location: GR8 – theater hall, Prinsegracht 8, 2512 GA The Hague
Tickets: €12.50 (standard) / €6.75 (Ooievaarspas) – available via PAARD
PUSH
Films that Make Noise is part of PAARD’s activist programme line called PUSH. PUSH is the new umbrella under which PAARD brings together its socially engaged, critical, progressive, and politically committed programming. As the leading pop venue in the city of power, politics, peace, (war) justice, and protest – just a few hundred meters from the Binnenhof – PUSH provides the soundtrack to social change.