Awards & recognition
Extended Archives (Art Basel Paris)
Lafayette Anticipations Production Support Program, France - 2023
Award Winner
Treat Me Like Your Mother (Feature documentary)
IDFA, Netherlands - 2025
World Premiere
Envision Award Nomination
Beeld & Guild Award Nomination
BFI Flare, UK - 2026
Official selection
Irish Film Institute, Ireland - 2026
Queer Spectrum Film Festival
Official Selection
Cinema Galeries, Belgium - 2026
Queer Spectrum Film Festival
Official Selection
Lux Film Fest, Luxembourg - 2026
Official selection
Lovers Film Festival, Italy - 2026
Official selection
Queer Spectrum Film Festival, Ireland - 2026
Official selection
Al Film, Germany - 2026
Official selection
Cinema Politica, Canada - 2026
Official selection
Anya Kneez: A Queen in Beirut (Short documentary)
Brooklyn Museum, USA - 2017
World Premiere
Honorary Award Winner
Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Scotland - 2024
Official Selection
Haifa Independent Film Festival, Palestine - 2019
Official Selection
Woodbury LGBTQ Film Festival, USA - 2019
Official Selection
Pink Apple Schwullesbisches Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Switzerland - 2019
Official Selection
Eyes Wide Open Cinema, UK - 2018
Official Selection
Kooz Palestinian Queer Film Festival, Palestine - 2018
Official Selection
Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, Tunis - 2018
Official Selection
Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK - 2017
Official Selection
International Queer & Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam - 2017
Official Selection
Selected press
Dazed - The hidden history of Beirut’s resilient trans women elders
i-d - Mohamad Abdouni is conjuring the lost history of Beirut’s trans community
Cultured - How Filmmaker Mohamad Abdouni Created a Tender, Joyful Portrait of Trans Women in Lebanon
Cultured - At Paris+, a Lebanese Artist Asks AI to Produce an Archive of Histories That Were Never Recorded
PhMuseum - Photobooks We Love From 2024
Vogue - 5 Highlights From Art Basel Paris 2024
Vogue France - 6 expositions à voir absolument en octobre à Paris
Vogue France - Art Basel Paris 2024
Vogue France - 4 must-see Parisian exhibitions in April 2019
Vogue Italia - Adorned • The Fashionable Show
Another - A Portrait of Beirut: A Year on From the Explosion
It’s Nice That - Mohamad Abdouni on documenting an “important time in Arab queer culture”
It’s Nice That - Mohamad Abdouni records the untold stories of trans women living in Beirut
Khabar Kaslan - To Gather Together
Freunde von Freunden - How Beirut’s creative scene is imagining a new future for its city
Radio France - Critique expos (audio)
Radio France - Beyrouth, épicentre de la culture queer dans le monde arabe (audio)
Art Basel - Queer cultures tell a different story of the contemporary world at the Institut du Monde Arabe
The Guardian - Thinking outside the box: Photoworks festival – in pictures
The Guardian - Tattoos, tans and techno: the photographers capturing the unseen Beirut
Monocle - ‘Sloft’, ‘Journal Safar’ and ‘Cold Cuts’ (audio)
SLEEK - COLD CUTS is the zine empowering a young generation of queer Arabs
Artefact - Ever-evolving with Cold Cuts
Canvas - Mohamad Abdouni: Soft Skills
GQ Middle East - The Best Art Exhibitions to Visit This December
L’Orient le Jour - Mohamad Abdouni remporte le prix Lafayette Anticipations
L’Orient Today - The man who documents Lebanon's queer community to combat his fear of forgetting
ELLE - Meet The Lebanese Drag Queen Living A Double Life
Strange Fire - Q&A: Mohamad Abdouni
Blind - The Hidden Stories of Trans Women in Beirut
Huck - The project reviving Beirut’s forgotten trans history
Huck - LGBTQ+ zines from places where being gay is condemned
Smithsonian Magazine - How 23 Artists Explore Queerness in the Arab World
Stack - “It’s basically just my friends, photographed nude in my studio”
Stack - Lebanese Drag Queens Unite Cold Cuts Magazine
Various Artists - Publishing Beirut: Loose Systems
Slate - À Beyrouth, la communauté queer écrit l’histoire
9 Lives - Carte blanche à Marco Costantini : Treat Me Like Your Mother
L’Oeil de la Photographie - Interview: Mohamad Abdouni
Communication Arts - Mohamad Abdouni
Something Curated - 6 Cultural Producers Enriching Beirut’s Creative Landscape
Les Nouveaux Riches - Interview with Mohamad Abdouni
Mille - Cold Cuts Magazine is a Safe Space for Marginalized Arabs
On Orient - Cold Cuts, le magazine queer très arty de Beyrouth