Bono: Stories Of Surrender receives seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival

Bono: Stories Of Surrender has received a seven-minute standing ovation after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.

Directed by Andrew Dominik, the movie will arrive on Apple TV+ on May 30. It is described as "a lyrical, bold visual exploration of Bono’s one-man show by the same name,” and is based on his 2022 memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.

Following the applause, Bono thanked the audience, Dominik and Steve Jobs. He referenced Cannes’s political roots, being founded in 1939 as a direct response to the Venice Mostra Festival having been co-opted by Hitler and Mussolini.

“The festival was set up to fight fascism,” he said. “Slava Ukraine.”

The film includes footage from Bono’s solo shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre in 2023, as well as spoken word passages from his book.

While at the festival, Bono confirmed to Rolling Stone that U2 are working on new music, “and it sounds like future to me.”

“Nostalgia is not to be tolerated for too long, but sometimes you’ve got to deal with the past in order to get to the future and to the present,” he said. “To get back to now is our desire. Get back to this moment we’re in. We had to go through some stuff, and we’re at the other end of it.”

He also said the new album would not be “a straight-up rock thing.”

Watch the trailer for Bono: Stories Of Surrender below: