Halit Ruhat Yildiz was born in 1987 in Bingöl, Turkey. Since 2012, he has been studying at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and lives in Germany. His first short film Annunciation (2017) was nominated for the Student Academy Awards 2017 in the category Best Foreign Feature Film and premiered at the 50th Hof International Film Festival, broadcast on ARTE, WDR. Mitosis (2018) is his graduation film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne which premiered at the 52nd Hof International Film Festival 2018 and broadcast on BR, RBB.                

Ruhat is currently developing his debut feature film  "EIGENGRAU".