About the Author
Born in 1984 in Tunisia, Mehdi Barsaoui was "bottle-fed on cinema" by his family. A director father, a producer father-in-law, a video maker cousin: as a matter of course, Mehdi Barsaoui enrolled in film school in Tunis after passing his high school diploma. When he finished his studies, he flew to Italy to complete his training at the DAMS in Bologna. Back in Tunisia, he worked as an editor before starting, in the late 2000s, to shoot short films. Over the next decade, he shot three, as well as two documentaries. Mehdi Barsaoui unveils his first feature film in 2019, A Son.
Developed Projects
Aya, a thirty-year-old Tunisian, lives in Tozeur, a city in southern Tunisia, at the edge of the desert. Between social dictates, conservatism and disillusionment, Aya is not the happiest girl in the world. One day, a misfortune befell her. Aya doesn't yet know that this will be the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to her. An unexpected opportunity for this young woman who sees her life completely called into question. What are we capable of to be free? How far can we go to free ourselves from our past? Aya will never be the same person again.
From Script to Screen
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