Adrian Goiginger was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1991. He wrote and directed his first feature film as a high school student in 2009: "Unforgettable," about a 19-year-old whose almost superhuman memory increasingly becomes a curse, was made as a high school project for which Goiginger was able to organize a comparatively high budget of 10,000 euros and recruit professional actors such as Thomas Flicker and Maik Möller. The premiere took place in Salzburg in April 2010.  

After graduating from high school and completing his military service, Goiginger founded the film production company 2010 Entertainment in Salzburg together with school friends. He worked as a director and screenwriter on various short films, commercials, image films and music videos. Since 2013 he studies directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His short films "Klang der Stille" ("The Sound of Silence", 2014) and "Milliardenmarsch" ("Billion March", 2015) were screened at numerous international festivals. 

Adrian Goiginger's autobiographical feature film "Die beste aller Welten" ("The Best of All Worlds", DE/AT), about his childhood in Salzburg's drug milieu, received much attention. It premiered at the 2017 Berlinale in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section, where it won the Kompass-Perspektive award. A number of other awards followed, including the First Steps Award for Best Feature Film, the German Director's Award Metropolis for Best Director Debut/Newcomer, the Bavarian Film Award 2018 for Newcomer Director, and five Austrian Film Awards, including for Director and Screenplay. In addition, the film received almost exclusively very positive reviews.

Goiginger's next feature film, "Märzengrund" ("Above the World"), a poetic Tyrolean peasant drama set in several time periods, premiered at the Diagonale in Graz and was nominated for the Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award (Goiginger and Felix Mitterer). In the same year, Goiginger presented his next feature film at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: "Der Fuchs" ("The Fox") tells the story of his grandfather and depicts his experiences during the Second World War. This film also received excellent reviews, not least for its unflinching portrayal of wartime atrocities. In April 2023, "Der Fuchs" was released in German cinemas.