Arkadij Khaet
Directing
Biography
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.
Known For
When Peppi (36) finds out he wasn’t invited to the class reunion, his self-image starts to crack. Fuck! Forgotten? Uninvited? – This must be a mistake! Searching for answers, we follow Peppi to his old hometown and back to the past of his 16-year-old self: Skateboarding with bleached tips through the monsoon of the 2000s. The era of flip phones, lan parties, and Top of the Pops. But alongside the wild, nostalgic memories lurk some dark teenage sins. Maybe there are reasons why Peppi shouldn’t have been invited after all. CHABOS is like an old Facebook profile you’ve scrolled too far down — full of shame.
Chabos
21-year-old Alina is an intern on the set of the scripted reality show 'Madly in Love' and prepared for her first day in pleasant anticipation. But her motivation receives a damper when she witnesses the way has-been director Marc treats his team. Under his rule, abuse of power and sexism are everyday occurrences. When Marc resorts to physical and psychological violence against an actor, Alina takes a decision.
Alina in Wonderland
In this new documentary, filmmakers Jascha Hannover and Arkadij Khaet set out to explore the origins of Jewish humour, tracing the use of irony and satire.
Who's Afraid of Jewish Humour?
Julia, Tayfun, Nadia, Johannes, Sam, and Adaolisa encounter typical everyday racism situations in the five-part “anti‑racist sketch comedy.”
Moooment!
A Russian-Jewish teenager Dima gets into a school fight, and then breaks the fourth wall and passionately and ferociously talks about his views, and about the hypocritically tolerant way in which his world works.
Masel Tov Cocktail
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Durch den Vorhang
One boy, one girl and her stepbrother. A date goes wrong.