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Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live
Where Dragons Live

Where Dragons Live

2024 • 82m

When you are afraid of the dark, scared of monsters, and trying to be brave enough to face them, you’d better invent a story. For Harriet and her three older brothers, growing up ‘among dragons’ at Cumnor Place was a life of enchanted gardens, Arthurian legends and things that go bump in the night. Theirs was a raried, story-book childhood that stoked their wildest imagination and greatest fears in equal measure.

Now adults and with both of their parents deceased, where they once played make believe and slayed dragons, the siblings must come together to clear out the family estate so it’s ready for sale - and in the process, come to terms with who they are, given their unorthodox and at times traumatic upbringing.

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The film was released in the UK and received rave reviews there including in The Guardian.

Where Dragons Live:

Harriet and her three older brothers experienced a magical childhood “among the dragons” at Cumnor Place, with enchanted gardens, fairy tales and nightmares. Now that they are adults and both their parents have died, brothers and sister are coming together to clear out the family home so it can be sold. In clearing out the bulging attics and overcrowded rooms, they try to relate to their demanding and eccentric parents and their unorthodox upbringing.

Where Dragons Live is a production by Docmakers in co-production with Bombito Productions & NTR, with support from the Netherlands Film Fund, the Netherlands Film Production Incentive, NPO Fund, Screen Scotland.

Credits:
Directed by Suzanne Raes,
Producer Ilja Roomans,
Co-producer Reece Cargan,
Director of Photography Victor Horstink,
Sound Tim van Peppen,
Montage David Arthur,
Sound Design Alex Booy,
Music Alex Simu,
Color grading Qianwei Tong.

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The first broadcast of Where Dragons Live will be on Thursday 24 April 2025 at 22:20 on NTR… >> read more The first broadcast of Where Dragons Live will be on Thursday 24 April 2025 at 22:20 on NTR on NPO 2. That same day, Harriet Impey and Suzanne Raes will be on Tijd voor Max to talk about the film. The press about Where Dragons Live: “Which dragons should be banished or tamed between the moving boxes, which ones can stay? Questions that are carefully answered in this intimate, beautifully imaginative family portrait,” according to de Volkskrant. And Trouw wrote: “Raes observes and listens sharply and has a beautiful eye for the melancholy but also for the fantasy that, at least for the only daughter of the family, largely determined the bond with her father.”