The Verge AIMay 28, 2026, 4:08 PMEmma Roth

A $2,000 AI-generated film will make its debut at Tribeca

AI-generated feature Dreams of Violets will premiere at Tribeca after reportedly costing $2,000 to make.

Tribeca Festival will premiere Dreams of Violets, a 75-minute AI-generated film. The fictional dramatization depicts the Iranian government’s mass killing of protestors in January, with its people and images fully created by AI. The reported $2,000 production cost makes the project notable less as a tool launch than as a cultural and ethical signal for AI-made cinema.

The Verge reports that next month's Tribeca Festival will include the premiere of an AI-generated film, Dreams of Violets. The work runs 75 minutes and is not a documentary but rather, in a fictional dramatized form, deals with the Iranian government's mass killing of protesters in January. The report specifically notes that the characters and imagery in the film are entirely AI-generated, and cites a prior report from The Hollywood Reporter stating that the entire film's production cost was US$2,000.

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