Global Minds at the Movies: Kneecap + Discussion
After a screening of Kneecap, a riotously entertaining comedy about an anarchic Northern Irish hip hop trio who rap in their mother tongue, there will be a discussion. Collaboration with Hogeschool Zuyd.
About Global Minds at the Movies
Movies can entertain, but also inform and inspire us. In your comfortable seat in the dark, you are transported to a different world and your horizon is broadened. Combining fun and learning! That is why the Hotel Management School Maastricht and the International Business and Communication Academies of Zuyd Hogeschool have joined forces with Lumière in a new series called 'Global Minds at the Movies'. The aim is to make students, and regular visitors, aware of and enthusiastic for other cultures and habits around the world, via film. How else?
After the screening, there will be a discussion led by Neville Backler, born and raised in the Republic of Ireland. Neville is lecturer English. This event is open to all visitors.
Kneecap - English subtitled
Riotously entertaining comedy about an anarchic Northern Irish hip hop trio who rap in their mother tongue. Trainspotting meets School of Rock in a rebellious film in which the band members play themselves.
We first meet the members of Belfast rap group Kneecap in the 2010s as drug-selling besties. More importantly, they’re staunch patriots who speak Irish as an act of cultural maintenance, and in defiance of British imperialism. When nerdy music teacher JJ Ó Dochartaigh enters the scene, he encourages the lads to turn their notebook scribblings into highly charged polemical rap songs (and becomes their DJ). What follows is a rowdy and cheerfully rude showbiz story following the trio through drug-hazed nights and clear-eyed days, as their music begins to impact the broader community while inevitably angering authorities.
In this pseudo-biography of the band Kneecap, Peppiatt shows through fast-paced editing, coarse language, and exuberant humour how the ‘generation cease-fire’ - the generation after Northern Ireland's 1998 peace deal - continues to resist British influences. The trio's infectious raps shift the struggle from extremist violence to pop culture.
The screening of KNEECAP with English subtitles on November 27 is a collaboration with Hogeschool Zuyd, titled Global Minds at the Movies. This screening includes an introduction and post-screening discussion (language: English).