Where Dragons Live to Screen at CPH: Dox

This week Where Dragons Live will screen at CPH: Dox also known as the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. 

The feature documentary is directed by Suzanne Raes and is a co-production with Ilja Roomans from Docmakers and made with support from the Netherlands Film and  Screen Scotland.  Randan producer Reece Cargan co-produced the film and will be in attendance as part of the official Scottish delegation.

How CPH describe the film:

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.

Screenings in Copenhagen will take place on:

• March 22nd at 4:15 p.m (followed by Q&A with director Suzanne Raes)

• March 23rd at 8:00 p.m

• March 27th at 2:20 p.m

Where Dragons Live screening at CPH Dox comes after its World Premiere at Sheffield Doc Fest in June of 2024 and a cinema release in the Netherlands in November 2024.

Where Dragons Live was also recently picked up by UK Distributor Verve Pictures and will be in cinemas throughout the UK from April 2025.