Arkadij Khaet was born during the final moments of the Soviet Union. A few weeks after his birth his family left the Republic of Moldova and immigrated to Germany. After graduating high school he lived in Israel for a while, and then moved to Cologne to start his undergraduate studies in Film and Television. As a student he started to implement his own film projects. During studies he met his co-director colleague Mickey Paatzsch with whom he started a collaboration on several projects. Following his studies in Cologne, Khaet graduated with a diploma in feature film directing from the renowned Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. He was a scholarship holder of the Jewish Gifted and Talented Foundation, the Ernst-Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk and is part of the programming collective of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin|Brandenburg. His films have screened at numerous festivals worldwide and have won several awards. Arkadij Khaet lives and works in the Ruhr area in Germany. As a freelance writer and director, he develops stories for TV, cinema and streamers.