My Family and the Explosion, which tells the story of how members of one family
were affected by the blast at
Beirut Port on August 4 last year
, when one of the biggest
non-nuclear explosions in history devastated large parts of the Lebanese capital
. It follows resident Nicole Torbey, her husband and their daughter, as they attempt to put their lives back in order in the months after
the catastrophe. Nicole Torbey in a scene from My Family and the Explosion . Courtesy Mahmoud Kaabour
“When the explosion happened in Lebanon, I was sitting in a playground in Berlin with my kids; I could not believe what I saw on YouTube,” Kaabour tells