Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue
Story
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other.
Arló Ó Cairealláin: Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom
Official submission of Ireland for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 97th Academy Awards in 2025..
Belfastperformed by Orbital
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024).
This is an excellent and challenging film, but I expect may be challenging for some of those from the various Irish and Northern Irish communities – which I'm not
I should also add it's not for people who find the idea of prolific drug use/references and sting language offensive – if you're one of those, don't see this.Is absolutely does help to have a little familiarity with the history of the troubles etc, but this film can also be viewed without that – it's a banging story about struggle and music, and almost feels like a really edgy, far more political reimagining of the Commitments – for the modern audience.The music is excellent, whether you understand Irish or not (I don't).