Lights, camera ... artificial intelligence?  Dreams of Violets, a feature-length movie inspired by the protest violence and massacres that unfolded in Iran in early 2026, is coming to the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10. The movie was directed and produced by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha under their AI-focused production company,  Fountain 0 , and every visual featured in the 75-minute docudrama was generated by AI. The inclusion of Dreams of Violets at Tribeca comes amid the US-Israel war on Iran and ongoing tensions in the Middle East. At a time when relatively few filmmakers from the region can tell stories like this on a global stage, the subject matter feels especially timely and likely to spark debate. The questions surrounding films like this shaped nearly every panel and discussion at an AI filmmaking conference I attended this week in Culver City, California, called  AI on the Lot .…