Tribeca Festival Accepts Fully AI-Generated Film 'Dreams of Violets'

Key Points:

• The 2026 Tribeca Festival will premiere “Dreams of Violets,” the first full-length, live-action film entirely generated by AI, produced by Fountain 0 to highlight Iranian civilian resistance.
• The 75-minute docudrama, inspired by the January Tehran protests, tells the story of five Iranians facing execution, witnessed by a 10-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, reflecting real-world clashes that resulted in thousands of deaths and arrests.
• Director Ash Koosha created the film using AI tools from his home in London over three months with a budget of about $2,000, aiming to memorialize the victims and give voice to families unable to speak out from within Iran.
• Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal praised the film for combining emerging AI technology with deeply human storytelling, offering audiences an intimate perspective on a conflict often unseen.
• While AI-generated films have appeared on the edges of major festivals, “Dreams of Violets” marks a milestone as the first AI-generated film accepted into a marquee festival’s official program; the 2026 Tribeca Festival runs June 3-14 in New York.