Hawthorne & Local Events
Salem Irish Film Festival: Kneecap
July 17 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pm

The Troubles meets Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting in Kneecap, a riotous Belfast-set comedy tracking the fictional rise of a real-life hip-hop trio whose music harks back to the glory days of gangsta rap. Rich Peppiatt’s film excels as a love letter to the Irish language and a raucous portrait of the lost generation growing up in post-ceasefire Northern Ireland. But these deeper themes are optional extras in a movie brimming with glorious skits involving ketamine, mosh-pits, and mad-cap chases. It’s Spice World with Semtex – and an absolute hoot.




