The Sweet Idleness


The Sweet Idleness is an upcoming dystopian film. It is touted by director Andrea Iervolino as "the world's first AI-directed feature film".

Premise

A futuristic world in which only 1% of humanity still works, while the rest of the population lives in freedom.

Production

It October 2025, it was revealed that Andrea Iervolino had developed the world's first feature-length AI generated film directed by an AI agent, titled The Sweet Idleness. The cast was overseen by an artificial intelligence director named FellinAI. The film was conceived as a way to "celebrate the poetic and dreamlike language of great European cinema".
The first teaser trailer was released on October 1, 2025.

Release

The Sweet Idleness is scheduled to be released in February 2026.