Sinisa Dragin graduated from the Film and Theatre Academy, Bucharest in 1991 and worked since then as a cameraman for Reuters. Due to his immediate contact with contemporary stories, Dragin headed at first towards documentaries, making two shorts, THE SORROW OF BLACK GOLD (1994) and BURNING SUN OVER TICHILEȘTI (1995). His first feature film for television, LONG JOURNEY BY TRAIN, got him several screenplay awards and the main APTR award, in 1998, his second film, EVERYDAY GOD KISSES US ON THE MOUTH, won three directing awards and the Tiger at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. He went back there in 2011 with IF THE SEED DOESN’T DIE, winning the Dioraphte award for best film funded by the Hubert Bals Fund, decided by the audience. In recent years, he returned to documentary, directing along with Alina Mungiu Pippidi WHERE EUROPE ENDS (2009)