# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehdi-barsaoui
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:52:53.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehdi-barsaoui"
name: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
slug: "mehdi-barsaoui"
description: "Mehdi M. Barsaoui, is a Tunisian filmmaker. He is best known as the director of the critically acclaimed feature film A Son (2019) and shorts Sideways (2010) and Bobby (2014)."
tagline: "Tunisian film director"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1984-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.470338666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5421179/"
    handle:    "nm5421179"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Barsaoui"
    title: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "مهدي برصاوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Barsaoui"
    title: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Barsaoui"
    title: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Barsaoui"
    title: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Barsaoui"
    title: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Barsaoui"
    title: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Barsaoui"
    title: "Mehdi Barsaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87475391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2370807"
    title: "Mehdi M. Barsaoui"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump