Harrikrisna Anenden is a Mauritian filmmaker. He began taking photographs at the age of 12 and later moved to London to study medical photography. He graduated from the London Film School and studied film criticism at the University of London. In 1980, he made his film debut with L’Argile et la Flamme. For many years, Anenden has worked for the World Health Organization (WHO). He has directed several documentaries for the WHO, including Blood, the Gift of Life in 1999 and Facing Up to AIDS in 2000.

Anenden joined the Cluster in 2021 for the workshop “Intermedial Indian Ocean” where he presented his film “Draupadi’s Veil” as a world premiere. This movie is about a mother’s sacrifice in the attempt to save her son who has come down with a serious case of meningitis.