A $2,000 AI-generated film will make its debut at Tribeca

The Tribeca Festival will premiere *Dreams of Violets*, a 75-minute AI-generated film costing $2,000 that dramatizes the Iranian government’s January mass killing of protestors. Created by Iranian-born brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, the film is the first fully AI-generated live-action feature accepted into a major festival, using Google’s Nano Banana, Kling AI, and Anthropic’s Claude. The film screens June 10th, highlighting both the low-cost potential of AI filmmaking and ongoing industry concerns over its impact on jobs.

Next month’s Tribeca Festival will include the premiere of an AI-generated film: Dreams of Violets . The 75-minute film is a fictional dramatization of the Iranian government’s mass killing https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/01/16/iran-growing-evidence-of-countrywide-massacres of protestors in January, with the people and images fully created by AI, as reported earlier by https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-film-dreams-of-violet-tribeca-premiere-1236606092/ The Hollywood Reporter . Dreams of Violets cost $2,000 to make and is “based on journalistic reports, photographs, and eyewitness accounts,” according to a press release https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260527634103/en/Dreams-of-Violets-to-World-Premiere-at-Tribeca-Festival-as-the-First-Feature-Length-Live-Action-Film-Completely-Generated-by-AI-Accepted-to-a-Major-Film-Festival . It was created by Ash and Pooya Koosha, two brothers who left Iran in 2009. Pooya co-founded Fountain 0, the company behind the film, while Ash serves as CEO. Fountain 0 says Dreams of Violets is the first full-length, live-action, AI-generated film to be accepted at a major film festival. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter , a costlier AI-generated film called https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/this-cannes-film-cost-500-000-to-make-400-000-was-ai-compute-costs-a823b08d Hell Grind screened at Cannes — but at a side event, not the main program. The Pooya brothers say they used Google’s Nano Banana for images, Kling AI for video generation, and Anthropic’s Claude for language editing, according to The Hollywood Reporter . “We fully understand the very genuine sensitivities of those individuals working in the movie industry, and like them we are worried what the unknown implications are for the livelihoods of many,” the Kooshas say in the release. “But the reality is that this film never would have been made if it were not for the AI capabilities that we were able to develop.” Dreams of Violets will screen at the Tribeca Festival on June 10th.