Anália Alencar holds a bachelor's degree in Social Communication from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, is an agroecologist from the Alternative Technology Service (PE) and is a postgraduate student in Cinema and Audiovisual from PPGCine/UFF. She also studied cinematography at the International Academy of Cinema (SP); digital photography at Porto Iracema das Artes - a training and creative school in Ceará; film directing at the Vila das Artes Public Audiovisual School (CE); and screenwriting with Anna Muylaert.

In her master's research, entitled "What the plants say: the ecodelia of visionary films in the face of environmental and imaginative crises", she analyzes the narrative and aesthetic arrangements of audiovisual works that are part of the visionary art movement, seeking to understand how experiences in non-ordinary states of consciousness are transposed into films under the hypothesis that the works resulting from visions trigger non-anthropocentric perspectives and provide an epistemological and political review of nature, producing a sensitive engagement and making the film a tool for ecocritical action.

In audiovisual directing, she addresses socio-environmental issues through speculative fabulation and ecofeminist counternarratives in contrast to apocalyptic narratives, having made several short films, including Bege Euforia (2022), which won awards for best photography, cast and poster; Vendo de Olhos Fechados (2023), an experimental short that also resulted in a video installation; and Tato Fino (in pre-production). In the visual arts, she has been working since 2006 as a member of a participatory photography group in Fortaleza/CE, through which she has taught workshops for children, young people and adults from the outskirts of the capital, continuing her authorial production with artisanal pinhole photography in intersection with cinema to this day.

In addition to being a curator of socio-environmental film festivals, such as FICASC - Serra Catarinense International Environmental Film Festival; the Calango International Environmental Film Festival (DF); and the Garopaba International Environmental Film Festival, she was also a member of the Young Jury of the 24th Tiradentes Film Festival — awarding Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: essa terra é nossa! (2020), by Isael Maxakali and Sueli Maxakali —, and curating international films for the 32nd Curta Kinoforum - São Paulo International Short Film Festival. She is the creator and director of the Mandala Socio-Environmental Cinema Exhibition and the Visionary Exhibition.