KNEECAP has been selected to represent Ireland in the Oscar International Feature Film category at the upcoming 97th annual Academy Awards. Set in West Belfast in 2019, it chronicles how fate brings the trio together and how they then go on to ‘change the sound of Irish music forever’. KNEECAP film received its World Premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in January this year, where it won a NEXT Audience Award, the first Irish language film to win at the festival and lands in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on August 8.