Arkadij Khaet
Jan 8, 1991 - Balti, Moldova
ARKADIJ KHAET was born in Moldova in 1991. A few months old, he immigrated to Germany with his family. After finishing school, he left the Ruhr area and lived in Israel for a while. He then completed a B.A. in Film and Television in Cologne, began making his own films during his studies and worked freelance for WDR. During his studies, Khaet met Mickey Paatzsch and has often worked as a team ever since: they write and direct together. From 2016 to 2023, Khaet studied feature film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. He was a scholarship holder of the Ernst-Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk and is part of the program collective of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin|Brandenburg. His films have screened at numerous festivals worldwide and have won several awards. As a freelance writer and director, Khaet develops material for TV, cinema and streamers and lives in the Ruhr area.
