Long before the Beirut blast in August 2020, they had established a deeply-rooted connection to Lebanon: Nicola von Leffern and Jakob Carl Sauer waited several months after the gigantic explosion before they moved to the country. They wanted to get an idea, initially without a camera and later with one, of what such a traumatic event can do to a society already battered by crises. They spent three years accompanying several protagonists in their attempts at individual healing, completing TO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE FIRE at precisely a time when the people of Lebanon are once again being plunged into a daily frenzy of destruction.