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Anwar Safa
Having made the 2008 short comedy La Gordiranfla, Anwar Safa’s first feature, El Jeremías, centers on a young boy whose intellectual ambitions are restricted by his deeply skeptical parents. “Self-taught, my ass” is his mom’s encouraging reaction when Jeremías announces his intentions to educate himself. There is something Wes Anderson-like in the flamboyant characterization and frontal framing of Safa’s film, as it examines our tendency to be suspicious of those who exhibit ideas above their perceived status. El Jeremías competed in the Official Mexican Feature Category and won the Press Award for Best First Film.