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Lemon Tree is a 2023 American short film written and directed by Rachel Walden, based on a true story told to Walden by her grandfather. In the story Walden's grandfather went on a road trip gone wrong with his father on the way back from Disney World. It stars Gordon Rocks, as the Son and Charlie Robinson as the Father. The story follows a teenager whose father steals a rabbit at a carnival to impress him, and subsequently has to try to get all three of them home.

Development for the seventeen-minute short started in 2021, when Walden presented the idea to fellow Gummy Films' founders, Pauline Chalamet and Luca Balser, who joined as producers. It was shot on 16mm Kodak film, in Long Island and upstate New York, and did not follow a conventional script, being entirely improvised. Aside from lead Gordon Rocks, the cast was composed of non-professional actors.

Lemon Tree premiered on May 24, 2023 at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, since then, the film has been presented in numerous international film festivals, including the Stockholm Film Festival and the Ghent International Film Festival.

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