Overview
- Tribeca Film Festival has programmed the world premiere of Dreams of Violets for June 10, 2026, at the AMC Flat Iron Theatre in New York City.
- The 75‑minute feature was produced by Ash and Pooya Koosha’s Fountain 0 over roughly three months for about $2,000 using tools including Google Nanobanana and Gemini, Kling AI, Anthropic’s Claude, and Fountain 0’s proprietary systems.
- The filmmakers say every person and image on screen was generated by AI and that the dramatization draws on journalistic reports, photographs and eyewitness accounts of January 2026 violence in Iran.
- Tribeca co‑founder Jane Rosenthal defended programming the film as an example of new storytelling methods, while Fountain 0 calls the slot a festival precedent that highlights AI’s potential to lower production barriers for indie creators.
- Critics and industry groups warn the project raises concrete concerns about job displacement, consent and the ethics of digitally representing victims, and the decision follows industry moves such as Cannes showing AI projects only in its market rather than official competition.