Born April 29, 1970 in Gomi, Georgia. From 1987 till 1992, Artchil Khetagouri studied aircraft engineering at the Technical University in Tbilisi. From 1999 till 2003 he studied in the directing class of the Netherlands Film and Television Academy NFTA in Amsterdam. In 2002 he directed the mid-length documentary Shining Shoes (broadcast on YLE 2/ Finland). He graduated from the Netherlands Film & Television Academy with the short fiction film: Heritage that won several awards and was broadcast on the Dutch public televisions IKON and Kunstkanaal. Akhmeteli 4 (65 min, 2006) was his first feature documentary, awarded the Prix Regards Neufs at the Visions du Reel Int. Film Festival.