Ben Affleck & Matt Damon’s film about landmark U2 concert is on TV tonight

The documentary film has a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Featuring footage of the Irish band's landmark gig, the documentary is described as "an exploration of the perils of nationalism and art’s role as a weapon of resistance and activism".

"Amid the breakup of Yugoslavia, the citizens of Sarajevo wake to find the city under siege and Bosnia at war. As the blockade stretches for years, living becomes an act of defiance and rock and punk music inspires and distracts from the daily nightmare of Serbian shells and snipers," the plot synopsis reads.

"In a far-fetched scheme inspired by local resistance, an American aid worker living in Sarajevo reached out to the world’s biggest band, U2, to see if they could help raise global awareness of the devastating conflict.

"The band agreed, and across the summer of 1993, their ZOO TV Tour featured live satellite interviews with local Sarajevans who described their plight to the concert-goers. When these interviews came to an end, the band pledged to perform in the city once the conflict was over.

"Kiss the Future follows the story of that promise, with a post-war concert that saw U2 play to over 45,000 local fans in a liberated city, a show that lives on as a joyous collective memory for the people of Sarajevo – proof that they did not just survive the blockade, but thrived in spite of it; that amid the horrors of the darkest human impulses, music and art can be acts of rebellion."

Produced by Affleck and Damon and directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, Kiss The Future earned rave reviews. The documentary currently holds a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Kiss the Future is airing on TV tonight/tomorrow morning on RTÉ2 at 12.55am. It's currently unavailable to rent or stream so now is the time to watch or record the film.

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