AI-generated film 'Dreams of Violets' will premiere at Tribeca Festival next month

The 75-minute film, which cost $2,000 to make, is a fictional dramatization of the Iranian government's mass killing of protestors in January, with all people and images created by AI. It was made by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, who left Iran in 2009; Pooya cofounded Fountain 0, the production company.

Fountain 0 says Dreams of Violets is the first full-length, live-action, AI-generated film accepted at a major film festival. The creators used Google's Nano Banana for images, Kling AI for video generation, and Anthropic's Claude for language editing.

The film is based on journalistic reports, photographs, and eyewitness accounts. The Kooshas acknowledge concerns about implications for movie industry workers, but stated the film could not have been made without the AI capabilities they developed.

Dreams of Violets will screen at the Tribeca Festival on June 10th.