Treat Me Like Your Mother

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2025 · 75 min · Documentary · TMDB 10.0/10

Overview

Four trans women from Lebanon—Em Abed, Jamal Abdo, Antonella, and Mama Jad—recount lives shaped by resilience, love, and loss. Their stories span from the groundbreaking state-funded gender-affirming surgery of 1997 to the disappearance of Beirut’s once-safe queer spaces. Through personal photographs, archival footage, and recollections of places like the Raouche strip, their voices resurrect a forgotten history of community and survival amid war and oppression. Interwoven with the filmmaker’s own journey of self-discovery, this intimate documentary traces four decades of trans life in Beirut, celebrating friendship, identity, and the enduring spirit of chosen family.

Directed by Mohamad Abdouni

Cast

• Antonella — Self
• Em Abed — Self
• Jamal Abdo — Self
• Mama Jad — Self