Dimitar Anakiev

Who is Dimitar Anakiev?

Dimitar Anakiev, is an independent filmmaker, writer and poet. Anakiev was born in Belgrade in 1960. Anakiev completed his Faculty of Medicine at University of Niš in Niš, Serbia in 1986 and worked seven years as a Medical Doctor. Anakiev resided in Slovenia beginning in 1987 but shortly thereafter and without warning found himself among the victims of administrative ethnic cleansing, the result of secret illegal action enacted 26 February 1992 by the democratic Slovenian government one year after the disintegration of the state of Yugoslavia. For 10 years Anakiev was compelled to live without personal documents, rendering him an invisible prisoner of the Slovenian democracy. At this point Anakiev purchased a small video camera and began his film career, in an attempt to make himself and other marginal Balkan people visible. The success of Anakiev's films has made it possible for him to continue filmmaking as a producer, director and writer. Anakiev's company, Dimitar Anakiev Films s.p.-DAF specializes in socially engaged films of the Balkans in the post-communist era. Anakiev is a founding member of the Slovenian Director Guild, and a member of the Slovenian Filmmaker Association.