Adrian Sitaru was born in 1971 in Deva, Romania. He lives and works in Bucharest. In 2007 the Short film Waves brought him the Golden Leopard of Tomorrow at the Locarno Film Festival. His debut feature, Hooked, screneed in Venice in 2008, has established him as the new voice of Romanian cinema in post-communist Romania. Since then, his films have won awards at festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Chicago, Locarno and Sarajevo. His latest feature film, Illegitimate, presented at the Berlinale 2016, won the CICAE Cinema Award. In the same year he shoot The Fixer.
