Romanian film Best Intentions wins two awards at Locarno Film Festival

Newsroom 16/08/2011 | 11:01

Romanian film Best Intentions, written and directed by Adrian Sitaru, received the Best Director award at the Locarno Film festival, in the International Competition section, while Romanian actor Bogdan Dumitrache won the Best Actor award for his role in the film.

Adrian Sitaru was born in 1971. He is the author of several short films, of which Valuri (“Waves”, 2007) has received numerous prizes. His first feature film, Pescuit sportiv (“Hooked”), for which, besides being the director, he also wrote the script, has been screened in film festivals from Toronto, Palm Springs, Estoril and in the main competition of the 2009 Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, France. In 2010, his latest short film, Colivia (“The Cage”) won the DAAD Short Film Award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.