The U2 frontman is at the film festival in Cannes, where a documentary based on his autobiography has its premiere and reminds the audience that the world is once again threatened by fascism, just like when the festival was founded in 1939.
Mussolini and the little man with a mustache and his buddy Goebbels had taken over the film festival in Venice, so this festival was founded to combat fascism, said Bono.
Even Hollywood star Sean Penn - who is a vocal advocate for Ukraine - is present in Cannes and walked the red carpet together with Bono, U2 guitarist The Edge and some soldiers who came directly from the front in Ukraine.
I just want to thank you for keeping us free, slava Ukraini, glory to Ukraine, said Bono to the audience's jubilation.
In the black-and-white documentary "Bono: Stories of surrender", Bono tells with some of U2's most iconic songs about the tragedy that marked his childhood, where his mother Iris collapsed and died at her own father's funeral when the singer was 14 years old. His father Brendan Hewson, who was already a man of few words, withdrew in shock, anger and depression.
The film, directed by Andrew Dominik, is also a love tribute to Bono's Ali Hewson, whom he met when they were both 15, the same day U2 was formed at a school in Dublin.
