Project Detail

Where Dragons Live

Name: Where Dragons Live
Director: Suzanne Raes
Released: 2024
Duration: 82 min

Synopsis

After the death of their parents, four siblings revisit their childhood home in Oxfordshire to tidy up before the house is sold. The old house creaks as the heirs rummage through every room. The house itself looks like a cross between the sets of Downton Abbey, Harry Potter and a BBC documentary on English gardening – charming, enchanting, a little creepy and maybe even cursed. Esoteric collections, antique furniture, paintings and, not least, a shared past, spill out of the cabinet of curiosities. Here, reality and fantasy have lived side by side. With each treasure they pack away, a new page in the story of an eccentric family are revealed. The mother, a passionate scientist, and the father, a dragon-obsessed art historian, filled their children with a mixture of made-up science and fabulous adventures. As the summer progresses and the old house is emptied, the four adult siblings must revisit the distant land of childhood together.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

Details

Year: 2024
Type of project: Features
Running time: 82 min
Director: Suzanne Raes
Producer: Ilja Roomans
Co-Producer: Reece Cargan
Executive Producer: Mark Thomas
Editor: David Arthur
Director of Photography: Victor Horstink
Composer: Alex Simu

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Netherlands, UK co-production

A Docmakers (NL) production in co-production with Bombito Productions (UK), NTR (NL)

Bombito Productions

Reece Cargan
0/1, 9 Roxburgh Street
Glasgow

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Film Harbour

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