Two Brothers Made an Entire Feature Film With AI, Called ‘Dreams of Violets’, and it Premieres at Tribeca in June

The AI movie Dreams of Violets is the creation of Ash Koosha and his brother Pooya. As for the direction, writing, and production of this movie, the two brothers created the film as part of their production company Fountain 0. At the time of its production, Ash was in London, and the movie took about three months to make, with a production budget of just $2,000.

Yes, everything had been created using AI; at first, Ash recorded some temporary voices for the characters before taking various methods to translate text into an animation sequence. Kling AI had the responsibility of translating still images into video footage with the help of Claude. The twin brothers also used their own technology at Fountain 0 to keep the characters consistent throughout scenes as well as to make camera movements look natural.

The story is set in Tehran in January 2026. It is based on actual reports, images, and accounts from persons who observed the protests, which were greeted with violent force by the authorities and resulted in major bloodshed. The film tells the narrative of five strangers who find themselves in the same dead-end alley before dawn, trapped between forces closing in on them. A soldier stumbles across them, while a child named Amir watches over them from a window in his wheelchair.

According to Ash Koosha, it was a very personal project for him, because he and his brother had to flee from Iran in 2009, but nowadays the news becomes really important because it’s very hard to receive trustworthy reports while you have no communications and everything around is unknown to you. The movie itself is rather a fiction based on reality, because Ash wanted to concentrate on the human aspect of the matter, and not on the chaos itself.

The Tribeca Festival elected to include Dreams of Violets in their main schedule, and it will screen in New York on June 10th as part of a run that begins June 3rd and ends June 14th. Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal was amazed by how they were able to blend new technology with the strength of the tales being told, and she believes it’s an excellent example of how technology is being used to deliver stories that we really need to hear right now.
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