Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu was born in Moldova in the former Soviet Union. After four years in Benin in West Africa, where she worked at the theatre, she moved to Berlin and studied Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb).

She was a jury member at the Warsaw International Film Festival and the Sofia International Film Festival. Prior to her Directing studies she worked as an assistant director for the German documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp and the Romanian director Christian Mungiu.

Her short films have received awards at international festivals such as ZINEBI Bilbao, Warsaw, Motovun and others. For “Panihida” she won the prestigious Robert Bosch Co-production Prize. The film celebrated its world premiere at the Rome International Film Festival 2012 and won the “CinemaXXI” competition.
For “Anishoara” she won the “When East Meets West” Development Award 2013 in Trieste. The film is her graduation film at the dffb.