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By Rich RICH PEPPIATT

CHARADES - as SALES All rights

Black comedy - Completed 2023

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2024

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Black comedy
- Countries
- IRELAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Rich RICH PEPPIATT
- Cast
- Mo MO CHARA, Móglaí MÓGLAÍ BAP, Dj PRÓVAI, Simone SIMONE KIRBY, Josie WALKER, Michael FASSBENDER
- Producer(s)
- Mother TONGUES FILMS (MOTHER TONGUES FILMS), Fine POINT FILMS (FINE POINT FILMS), Wildcard IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BFI (WILDCARD IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BFI), Screen SCREEN IRELAND (SCREEN IRELAND), Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann SCREEN IRELAND / FÍS ÉIREANN (SCREEN IRELAND / FÍS ÉIREANN), Northern Ireland SCREEN (NORTHERN IRELAND SCREEN), Great Point Media GREAT POINT MEDIA (GREAT POINT MEDIA), Curzon CURZON FILM (CURZON FILM)
- Synopsis
- When fate brings together disillusioned music teacher JJ with self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise & Liam Og, the sound of Irish music is changed forever.  
  
  Their West Belfast hip-hop group, Kneecap, fast become unlikely figureheads of the civil rights movement to save the Irish language.
  
  But police, paramilitaries & politicians soon threaten to derail their ambitions - even if their worst enemies are often themselves.
  
  Across the globe a language dies every 40 days – this is the darkly comic true story about the fight to save one of them.