Adrian Sitaru is the author of several short films, including Waves/Valuri, which received numerous prizes. His first feature film, Pescuit sportiv/Hooked, for which, besides being the director, he also wrote the script, has been screened at film festivals around the world and in the main competition of the 2009 Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, France.

He also directed Best Intentions/Din dragoste, cu cele mai bune intenții in 2011, which snatched various awards, including two at Locarno festival, and Domestic, in 2012.

Sitaru, born in 1971 in Deva, in Central Romania, collaborated with Costas Gavras for the film Amen in 2002.

In 2012, he was also a director for five episodes of the HBO Romania series In Deriva /Drifting.