IF YOU CAN EVER GET BACK

AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD - Portland Film Festival Mental Health • Veterans • Combat Veterans • Army Medics • Military • Army • PTSD • Iraq War Date of Completion: 2020 | Run Time: 100 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Directors: Taylor Lee Nagel, Emma Findlen LeBlanc & Philip Sands | Producers: Taylor Lee Nagel, Emma Findlen LeBlanc & Philip Sands IF YOU CAN EVER GET BACK tells the story of three US army combat medics who served in Iraq’s “triangle of death.” Ten years later, they struggle to find their place in the civilian world and to lay to rest their wartime ghosts. Combat medics suffer especially high rates of PTSD, depression, and suicide, and the film explores their unique experiences in war and after war. By interweaving the everyday and the extreme, the present and the past, the film offers an open-ended reflection on the moral, emotional, and existential consequences of war for those soldiers who must aid wounded enemy combatants a