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Matt Damon on Sarajevo Siege Documentary ‘Kiss the Future’: ‘We Can Defeat Anything, Even the Darkest of Threats, as Long as We’re Together’
Matt Damon talks with Variety about Sarajevo Siege Documentary 'Kiss the Future' featuring U2 footage, Bill Clinton and Christiane Amanpour
Although the film features an awe inspiring U2 performance during a 1997 post-war concert celebrating the city’s hard-fought triumph over ethnic nationalism, “ Kiss the Future ” is not a shiny, shimmering, bombastic pop doc. In the film citizens struggle to survive the siege of Sarajevo and ultimately turn to rock and punk music for inspiration and distraction from the daily nightmare of Serbian shells and snipers. In 2020, Cicin-Sain, while writing a screenplay for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl Street Films, pitched the idea of “Kiss the Future” to the production company.
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