Anna Gyimesi was born in 1985, in Budapest (Hungary). After receiving her degree in medicine in 2011, she turned to filmmaking. She graduated from the film directing program of the University of Theater and Film Arts in 2019 and from documentary film directing in the Docnomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Course in 2021. Her interests are taboo social dilemmas represented through personal dramas, especially connected to motherhood, womanhood, and social marginalization. With Affricate she won Cinelink-award for the best pitch at Talent Sarajevo Pack Pitch 2020 and took part in European Short Pitch Works-In-Progress Co-Production Forum in 2022. Recently she is developing her first feature.