Flavors of Iraq

Format:

Video

Language:

French

Genre:

Animated films

Fiction films

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file) sound, color

Other Title:

Parfum d'Irak

Place of Publication:

2024

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Been Here Stay Here is a quiet, immersive portrait of Tangier Island-a centuries-old Evangelical fishing community in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay. Long framed as "America's first climate casualty," Tangier has been used as a symbol in debates about denial and blame. But this film offers a different lens: not through experts or statistics, but through lived experience. The film invites viewers into the rhythms of daily life-fishing, worship, family-on an island losing ground both literally and figuratively. The island has lost two-thirds of its landmass since the 1850s. Water laps at doorsteps. Graves fall into the sea. Yet the residents remain, bound by faith, memory, and devotion to place. In the end, this is less a film about rising seas than about what rises in us when we choose to understand instead of persuade. It is a film about belonging, loss, and the radical act of staying put-even when the world tells you to move on

Credits:

Léonard Cohen