Iranian film made entirely with AI and a budget of US$2,000 premieres at NY festival

"Dreams of Violets", a film made entirely with AI and a budget of R$ 10,000, premieres at an international festival
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The Tribeca Festival set the world premiere of "Dreams of Violets", with a screening scheduled for June 10th, during the 25th edition of the event in New York.
According to Fountain 0, responsible for the project, this is the first feature film with real actors completely generated by artificial intelligence to be part of the official program of a large festival.

Directed by Iranian filmmaker Ash Koosha, the film is a 75-minute docudrama inspired by the protests that took to the streets of Tehran in January this year.
Synopsis
Poster for "Dreams of Violets", a film made entirely with Artificial Intelligence.
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The plot follows five Iranians who meet in an alley in the city before being executed, under the testimony of Amir, a boy from 10 years with cerebral palsy.
The clashes portrayed reflect real conflicts between authorities and civilians that resulted in at least 7,000 deaths and more than 50,000 prisoners, according to data from the Human Rights Activists News Agency.
In a statement, Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of Tribeca, highlighted the balance between the technological resource and the impact of the project's political message.
"At this moment in history, when both artificial intelligence and Iran are central to the global debate, this film offers audiences a rare and intimate perspective on a conflict that many have failed to see or fully understand. What moved us was not just the technological achievement, but the emotional immediacy and urgency of the story itself."
A native of Tehran and based in London, director Ash Koosha began the project shortly after the massacres were announced.
Without access to film crews, actors or Iranian territory itself, the filmmaker used digital tools to make the work possible from his home.
The total production cost was around US$ 2,000 (approximately R$ 10 thousand), in a process that lasted three months.
Made entirely with AI
Docudrama 'Dreams of Violets' is part of the official program of the Tribeca Festival
Disclosure
To create the film, tools such as Kling AI for video generation, Claude AI from Anthropic for language adjustments, and the Google's Gemini and Nanobanana systems for search and imaging, plus proprietary Fountain 0 technology for frame accuracy.
Koosha defended the memorialistic nature of the production in the face of ethical discussions about the use of technology in real episodes.
"I understand that an AI-generated film about people who actually died raises difficult questions. I thought about these questions every minute of every day that I worked on this film. My answer is that the alternative - silence, oblivion, the regime's preferred outcome - is worse. The film exists because the dead deserve to be seen."
Historically, major film festivals have restricted artificial intelligence productions to markets parallels.
Last week, the Cannes Film Festival screened the action film "Hell Grind", generated by AI by the startup Higgsfield AI, but limited the screening to the Marché du Film, prohibiting productions of the genre in the official competition.
Last year, the Warsaw Festival also hosted the international premiere of the AI-generated documentary "Post Truth", following a commercial screening in Turkey.
The 2026 Tribeca Festival takes place June 3-14.

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