Bono: Stories of Surrender
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Dede Gardner
Jon Kamen
Jeremy Kleiner
Brad Pitt
Alec Sash
Dave Sirulnick
| Bono: Stories of Surrender | |
|---|---|
 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Andrew Dominik |
| Produced by | Meredith Bennett Dede Gardner Jon Kamen Jeremy Kleiner Brad Pitt Alec Sash Dave Sirulnick |
| Starring | Bono |
| Cinematography | Erik Messerschmidt |
| Edited by | Lasse Järvi |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Apple TV+ |
Release dates | |
Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bono: Stories of Surrender is a 2025 American documentary film about the Irish musician Bono, directed by Andrew Dominik. The film documents a 2023 performance by Bono at the Beacon Theatre in New York City during his one-man stage show "Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief...", which was undertaken to promote his 2022 memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The performance features Bono reciting and acting out passages from his book and performing U2 songs in stripped-down arrangements.
The film had its world premiere at the Special Screenings section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2025, where it received a seven-minute standing ovation.[1] It was released on Apple TV+ on May 30, 2025,[2] as both a standard 2D film and an Apple Immersive Video for the Apple Vision Pro headset, making it the first feature-length film to be released in the format.[3] Preceding the film's release, an abridged version of Bono's memoir that follows the narrative arc of the film was released in paperback, also under the title Bono: Stories of Surrender. An EP of the same name with live performances of three songs accompanied the film's release on May 30.[4]
Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive) is a special edition of the film available as an Apple Immersive Video on the Apple Vision Pro, in a media format recorded in an 8K resolution with spatial audio. It is the first feature-length film available in the format. The immersive version of the film offers 180-degree video that places viewers on stage with Bono as he tells his story. It was creative directed by Elad Offer of the Artery, the New York-based creative studio.