Pear Garden
Crew
Director: Shadab Shayegan
Screenplay: Shadab Shayegan
Film Music: Periklis Liakakis
Sound Design: Rachel Oker, Jonathan Rösch
Sound: Farzan Roozbahani
Editing: Revan Sarikaya
Animation: Gülce Besen Dilek, Valeriia Dyadyuh, Mikael Jacobsen, Yerkezhan Sabitbekova, Shadab Shayegan
Executive Producer: Shadab Shayegan
Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Sound Mix: Vincent Egerter
Compositing: Andra Cezara Berilă, Dominik Girod
Cast
Cheshmeh Ebrahimzadeh, Nava Hemyari, Shahin Taslimi
Task
Six-year-old Lily visits her grandma, who underwent a mastectomy and lost her breasts, in her grandma’s pear garden. Lily is confused by her grandma's changed appearance upon arrival. At night, she discovers that her grandma's shadow still has breasts. Lily follows the shadow as it leaves through the window while her grandma is sleeping, guided by her own shadow. On her journey, she finds a tree with breast-like fruits and thinks she has found replacements. Lily picks two, but upon returning, they turn out to be pears. Disappointed, she throws them away, causing them to break. By observing the broken pears, finally she finds a solution; Lily takes the seeds and places them on her sleeping grandma's scars, hoping they'll grow into breasts.
