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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadij_Khaet

Arkadij Khaet (Russian Аркадий Хаeт; born 1991 in Bălți, Republic of Moldova) is a German film director. His films have received numerous awards, including the 57th Grimme Prize. In his work he deals with Jewish themes, among other topics.

Life
Khaet was born in Moldova in 1991. His family emigrated to Germany a few weeks after his birth. He grew up in the Ruhr area.

After graduating from high school and spending time abroad in Israel, he completed his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Film and Television in Cologne. During his studies he met Mickey Paatzsch and since then Paatzsch have often worked with him as a co-director. Khaet founded the production company Freigeist|Film GbR in Cologne and worked as a freelancer. Since 2016, he has been studying feature film directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. He is a scholarship holder of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk and part of the artist collective DAGESH. He has been part of the program committee of the Jewish Film Festival Berlin and Brandenburg since 2021.

Work
In his films, Arkadij Khaet often deals with Jewish themes, with a focus on young people. His debut film Through the Curtain, which was also his BA thesis, is about a German boy on an exchange trip to Israel. Khaet's aim was to create a drama about the culture of remembrance for teenagers and young adults. The film was awarded the German Human Rights Film Prize in the Education category and was released as a DVD with accompanying didactic material for school lessons.

In 2017, Khaet created the film collage “Punching Nazis” for the Radical Jewish Culture Days at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, a topic that he also addressed in his widely acclaimed and award-winning short film Mazel Tov Cocktail. In the film, a young Jew uses wit but also violence to defend himself against being pushed into a “victim role”. Khaet described this in an interview: “The role of the Jew, who stands by at every commemoration event and nods sympathetically at every 'Never again!', perhaps even, in view of the assassination attempt on the synagogue in Halle, thanks for the sturdy oak door.” Khaet describes the fight back against anti-Semitism as a “guilty pleasure moment” and “a kind of inner liberation”. One should not ask him as a Jew what should be done about anti-Semitism: "Why am I the one who has to answer that? It is the task of German society as a whole to provide the answers.” SOURCE LINK NOT ACTIVE ANYMORE

Filmography (Selection)
2015: Durch den Vorhang (Director, Screenplay, Editing) 2016: Scheideweg (director, screenplay, editor, producer) (short film) 2017: Hikikomori – Leben durch die Linse (Director, Screenplay) 2019: Alina im Wunderland (Director, Screenplay, Casting) 2020: Masel Tov Cocktail (Director, Screenplay, Casting)

Awards (Selection)
2016: German Human Rights Film Award in the Education category (for Through the Curtain) 2017: German Youth Film Award at the 30.Bundes.Festival.Film (for Through the Curtain) 2018: Audience Award for the best German-language short film at the International Queer Film Festival (for Scheideweg) 2020: Film Promotion Award and Audience Award at the 32nd Filmfest Dresden (for Masel Tov Cocktail) 2020: Audience Award for the best medium-length film at the Max Ophüls Film Festival (for Masel Tov Cocktail) 2020: German Human Rights Film Award in the category University and Education (for Masel Tov Cocktail) 2020: Nominated for the German Short Film Award in the feature film category (Masel Tov Cocktail) 2020: Youth Jury Award at the 40th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2020: Civis Media Award (Young C. Award and Top Award for Masel Tov Cocktail) 2021: Film Festival Emden-Norderney (Engelke for Masel Tov Cocktail) 2021: 57th Grimme Prize (for Masel Tov Cocktail) 2022: 58th Grimme Prize nomination for "Moooment!" (participation in screenplay, KiKA)

Publications

 * Der cineastische Umgang mit der Shoah. Eine exemplarische Analyse von Spielbergs "Schindlers Liste". GRIN Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3656939481

Website Links

 * Arkadij Khaet in der Internet Movie Database (englisch)Arkadij Khaet bei Kalamancha Film Produktion
 * Arkadij Khaet beim Maxim Gorki Theater
 * Arkadij Khaet bei filmportal.de
 * Arkadij Khaet bei crew united