• Director(s)

    Suzanne Raes

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    82m

  • Cast

    Edward Impey, Harriet Impey, Lawrence Impey

Film

Where Dragons Live

mild bad language, upsetting scenes, references to dangerous behaviour

In this documentary, adult siblings reunite in their family home following the death of their mother and reflect on a complicated family life with their parents. …

In this documentary, adult siblings reunite in their family home following the death of their mother and reflect on a complicated family life with their parents.

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violence
There are familiar illustrations of St George on horseback stabbing a dragon with a lance.
threat and horror
In a dramatised sequence, the shadow of a dragon flies over a running boy and people recall childhoods in which they were told stories of scary fantastical creatures.
language
Mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘shit’, ‘piss’, ‘crap’) is accompanied by very mild terms (‘hell’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’).
discrimination
Historical sexist attitudes are reflected on and implicitly challenged, and a woman says she felt ignored within her family because of a childhood medical condition.
drugs
A man makes a jokey comment about mice getting 'high' in the attic of the family home on the ‘pharmaceuticals’ kept there by his late mother.
dangerous behaviour
A man talks about his childhood and foraging for wild mushrooms, which were eaten.
injury detail
There are images of reptile heads kept in jars of formaldehyde and animal skeletons.
alcohol and smoking
People smoke, and consume alcohol.
theme
There are mild upsetting moments as adults and children reflect on matters of death and the complex dynamics of a family life with parents who laid down rules, seemed to favour some siblings over others and kept an emotional distance. A man mimics his father raising a hand to him as a disciplinary threat, but states that he was never actually beaten.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman is reminded by her brother that as a child she was more anxious about creatures of the imagination being under her bed than ‘rapists coming in through the window’.

  • Director(s)

    Suzanne Raes

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    82m

  • Cast

    Edward Impey, Harriet Impey, Lawrence Impey

mild bad language, upsetting scenes, references to dangerous behaviour
Classified Date:
09/04/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Verve Pictures Ltd
violence
A painting depicts St George spearing a dragon’s neck, without gory detail.
threat and horror
Occasional references to stories of dragons and monsters include a fantastical sequence depicting a child running as the shadow of a dragon swoops over the ground nearby. Other scenes feature unsettling noises and a very mildly spooky tone. Two children briefly discuss fears such as death and the loss of loved ones.
language
Bad language includes ‘piss’, ‘bloody hell’, ‘shit’, ‘crap’, ‘Jesus’ and ‘oh my God’.
discrimination
There are brief condemnatory references to sexism. A woman mentions not having been listened to or believed while suffering from an autoimmune disease as a child.
drugs
A man jokes about mice getting 'high' on 'pharmaceuticals' stored in an attic.
dangerous behaviour
A person fondly recalls having picked and eaten wild mushrooms as a child.
injury detail
There are brief images of taxidermied animals, animal skeletons, and a dead snake preserved in a jar.
alcohol and smoking
Adults are seen smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol.
theme
The themes of death, grief and challenging family relationships are handled in a sensitive manner. Adult siblings discuss their complicated feelings about their late parents, including their fear of their mother’s temper, and the fact that they were discouraged as children from showing emotion. A man does a comical impression of his father threatening to beat him; however, we are informed that such threats were never enacted.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man jokes that as a child his sister was more afraid of fantastical monsters than of the potential threat of ‘rapists’.
mild bad language, upsetting scenes, references to dangerous behaviour
Classified Date:
29/04/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Verve Pictures Ltd
violence
There are familiar illustrations of St George on horseback stabbing a dragon with a lance.
threat and horror
In a dramatised sequence, the shadow of a dragon flies over a running boy and people recall childhoods in which they were told stories of scary fantastical creatures.
language
Mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘shit’, ‘piss’, ‘crap’) is accompanied by very mild terms (‘hell’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’).
discrimination
Historical sexist attitudes are reflected on and implicitly challenged, and a woman says she felt ignored within her family because of a childhood medical condition.
drugs
A man makes a jokey comment about mice getting 'high' in the attic of the family home on the ‘pharmaceuticals’ kept there by his late mother.
dangerous behaviour
A man talks about his childhood and foraging for wild mushrooms, which were eaten.
injury detail
There are images of reptile heads kept in jars of formaldehyde and animal skeletons.
alcohol and smoking
People smoke, and consume alcohol.
theme
There are mild upsetting moments as adults and children reflect on matters of death and the complex dynamics of a family life with parents who laid down rules, seemed to favour some siblings over others and kept an emotional distance. A man mimics his father raising a hand to him as a disciplinary threat, but states that he was never actually beaten.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman is reminded by her brother that as a child she was more anxious about creatures of the imagination being under her bed than ‘rapists coming in through the window’.

  • Classified date

    29/04/2025

  • Language

    English