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WHERE DRAGONS LIVE

WAAR DRAKEN WONEN

By Suzanne RAES

FILM HARBOUR - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2024

WHERE DRAGONS LIVE is an intimate and enchanting portrait of Childhood fears, imagination and the enduring power of the stories and objects that shape our lives.

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Sheffield DocFest 2024
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    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Female director, Family
    • Countries
    • NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 81 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Suzanne RAES
    • Producer(s)
    • Ilja ROOMANS (Docmakers)
    • Synopsis
    • Where Dragons Live is an extra-ordinary, feature length documentary that takes us through the looking glass into a lost world where upper-class gentlemen once embarked on world tours to collect antiquities as a right of passage, and their children read story books in Latin. Artist Harriet Impey was one of those children. 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 rarified, story-book childhood that stoked their wildest imagination and greatest fears in equal measure. Now adults, where they once played make believe and slayed dragons, the siblings must come together to sort and clear out the family estate ready for sale, and come to terms with an unorthodox, and at times traumatic upbringing.

      Like a museum of the Impey childrens’ childhood, everything at Cumnor Place is preserved eerily in time like their father’s own bizarre bottled reptiles that still line the shelves. Even the fire-breathing dragons at the center of the family mythology now take their place among the dusty artifacts and curiosities that spill out from behind cupboard doors and dusty chests like buried treasure. Stepping back inside Cumnor Place, Harriet says, is like stepping into the past. “The house has a strange effect on all of us.”

      As they unpack the Pandora’s Box of family life at Cumnor Place, the darker side of their childhood begins to surface too. Each of the siblings is faced with difficult choices about which artifacts to keep and which to throw away - just as they must grapple with their own conflicting memories and wounds - and as all grown ups must eventually do, learn to see their parents through new eyes - not as monsters or heroes, but as mere mortals.

      Where Dragons Live is an intimate and enchanting portrait of childhood fears, imagination and the enduring power of the family myths and artifacts that shape our lives.
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