Dimitris Anagnostou was born in 1984. He studied Chemistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and filmmaking at the Stavrakos Film and Television School in Athens; at the University Paris 1 Sorbonne; and at the University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y).
Since 2016, he teaches the courses The Aesthetics of Cinema and Theory of Montage at Stavrakos Film and Television School.
His first short film, Mare Nostrum (2020) had its world premiere at the international competition section of the Vienna Shorts International Short Film Festival. He is currently completing the production of the short film Lumen, directed by Eirini Tzoulia, and preparing his second short film, Atopia.