# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-garbarski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:59.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-garbarski"
name: "Sam Garbarski"
slug: "sam-garbarski"
description: "Sam Garbarski is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. His film Irina Palm (2007) was awarded Best European Film at the 53rd David di Donatello Awards. He then directed A Distant Neighborhood (2010), a fantasy film based on the manga of the same name by Jiro Taniguchi. Garbarski co-wrote its screenplay with Jérôme Tonnerre and Philippe Blasband. The film earned him a Magritte Award nomination in the category of Best Director."
tagline: "Belgian film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Garbarski.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             9.258470277946845
  historical:           7.014292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304921/"
    handle:    "nm0304921"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "سام گاربارسکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "سام جاربارسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Garbarski"
    title: "Sam Garbarski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Garbarski"
    title: "Sam Garbarski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Garbarski"
    title: "Sam Garbarski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Garbarski"
    title: "Sam Garbarski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD"
    title: "サム・ガルバルスキ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Garbarski"
    title: "Sam Garbarski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2216464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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