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AI-Generated Film About Iranian Protest Violence Heads to Tribeca Film Festival
The film was made in about two months for $2,000 and uses AI video tools to recreate a massacre that killed more than 7,000 people, producers said.
- On June 10, the Tribeca Festival will premiere 'Dreams of Violets', marking the first AI-generated live-action feature film accepted into a major festival's official lineup.
- First-Time filmmakers Ash Koosha and Pooya Koosha produced the film on a $2,000 budget over three months to memorialize a January massacre of Iranian civilians, an event behind a "wall I cannot cross," Ash Koosha said.
- According to production studio Fountain 0, the film was built using Kling AI for video, Anthropic's Claude AI for editing, and Google Gemini for research across three months.
- Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal called the film a "powerful example" of human storytelling, contrasting with Cannes, where organizers banned AI-generated films from official competition.
- The film dramatizes January protests in Tehran where clashes left at least 7,000 people dead and more than 50,000 arrested; Iranian director Jafar Panahi was recently summoned to court for propaganda activity against the regime.
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Iranian director Ash Koosha said, ‘I would have preferred to make this film with a crew, with actors, with the dignity of a full production’
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