Kneecap has been named the winner of Best Irish Film at the 36th Galway Film Fleadh. Written and directed by Rich Peppiat and produced by Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Patrick O’Neill this fiercely original sex, drugs, and hip-hop biopic, sees the Belfast rap group playing themselves, with Academy- Award-nominee® Michael Fassbender in tow, laying down a global rallying cry for the defence of native cultures.
In an overwhelming response from the voting public, KNEECAP also won the Audience Award and the Irish Language Feature Film Award, a feat that has never happened at the Fleadh in 36 years.
The film is released in cinemas on the 2nd August.
Winning Best Irish First Feature was Fidil Ghorm directed by Anne McCabe, written by Patricia Forde and produced by Pierce Boyce and Bríd Seoighe. A captivating drama, Fidil Ghorm tells the story of 10-year-old Molly, who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her dad, she can wake him up from a coma.
Housewife of the Year, won the Best Irish Documentary Award, directed by Ciaran Cassidy and produced by Maria Horgan and Colum McKeown. Housewife of the Year tells the story of Ireland’s treatment of women through the prism of a unique, surreal, live-televised competition, that must be seen to be believed.
There were joint winners for the prestigious World Cinema Competition, Madhi Fliefil’s To A Land Unknown and Oktay Baraheni’s The Old Bachelor.
For a full list of winners visit here.