“Dreams of Violets,” a 75-minute fictional dramatization about Iran’s January crackdown on anti-government protesters, is set to premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Multiple outlets report that the film is generated entirely with AI tools, with all characters and images created by artificial intelligence rather than using human actors, cameras, sets, or traditional crews. The director, Iranian-British filmmaker Ash Koosha, created the project from his home in London, where he says it was too unsafe to film inside Iran. Sources describe the story as a dramatization based on journalistic reporting, video material, photographs, and eyewitness accounts, while also emphasizing that the work is not a documentary. Several reports say the film took about three months to produce and had a reported production cost of under $2,000. Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal publicly defends the decision to screen the AI-made feature, while the film is also prompting renewed industry debate about whether AI can represent human stories and whether it expands access to filmmaking or threatens parts of the industry.