First fully AI-generated feature film to premiere at Tribeca Festival in New York (heise.de)

• First fully AI-generated feature film accepted to major festival
• Production cost: $2,000
• Film dramatizes January 2026 massacre in Iran

"The Tribeca Festival in June 2026 will feature "Dreams of Violets", the first fully AI-generated feature film accepted into a major festival's official program. Production cost is reported as $2,000. The film dramatizes the January 2026 massacre of Iranian civilians by government forces. Produced by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, who fled Iran in 2009, it uses AI tools including Google Nano Banana, Kling AI, Claude, and Gemini. The 75-minute film is based on journalistic reports and eyewitness accounts."