HoloCine: Holistic Generation of Cinematic Multi-Shot Long Video
  Narratives
Authors: name: Yihao Meng; name: Hao Ouyang; name: Yue Yu; name: Qiuyu Wang; name: Wen Wang; name: Ka Leong Cheng; name: Hanlin Wang; name: Yixuan Li; name: Cheng Chen; name: Yanhong Zeng; name: Yujun Shen; name: Huamin Qu
Published: 2025-10-23 17:59:59

Abstract: State-of-the-art text-to-video models excel at generating isolated clips but
fall short of creating the coherent, multi-shot narratives, which are the
essence of storytelling. We bridge this "narrative gap" with HoloCine, a model
that generates entire scenes holistically to ensure global consistency from the
first shot to the last. Our architecture achieves precise directorial control
through a Window Cross-Attention mechanism that localizes text prompts to
specific shots, while a Sparse Inter-Shot Self-Attention pattern (dense within
shots but sparse between them) ensures the efficiency required for minute-scale
generation. Beyond setting a new state-of-the-art in narrative coherence,
HoloCine develops remarkable emergent abilities: a persistent memory for
characters and scenes, and an intuitive grasp of cinematic techniques. Our work
marks a pivotal shift from clip synthesis towards automated filmmaking, making
end-to-end cinematic creation a tangible future. Our code is available at:
https://holo-cine.github.io/.