Directing

Axel Cheb Terrab

Born August 6, 1998 · Buenos Aires, Argentina. (age 28)

Axel Cheb Terrab is a film director and editor, known for his shorts La declamación (North Film Festival), The stumble (BAFICI 24 and Market Pick at Clermont-Ferrand 2024) and Proscenio, (Argentine Competition in BAFICI 25). Gala & Kiwi, his debut feature film, premiered at the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Axel is currently in production of his second feature film "The wonders".

Known For

Pérez

A very unlucky man gets kidnapped two times in the same day.

The Impure Ones

The Impure Ones · 2019

The Impure Ones

Cali's search for her missing girlfriend will turn rather sinister after she enters an abandoned house which is not as empty as she thinks

The Thirst

The Thirst · 2022

MovieFantasyRomance

Clavo is a romantic daydreamer of a boy. Polilla is a fierce and beautiful girl. They both wake up in a strange world with a terrible thirst; a world where trees have faces, and where unique and fearful creatures roam. Above all things, and nevertheless, there are no sources of food to be found. Therefore, Clavo and Polilla must come up with a plan in order to survive.

Gala & Kiwi

Gala & Kiwi · 2025

MovieDramaComedy

After six years, Gala & Kiwi reunite for a special night, dancing, acting, and sharing stories of their sexual affairs. The narrative unfolds like a play, where the discomfort of pretending everything is fine hides a subtle violence.

The Stumble

The Stumble · 2023

A photographer captures a possible love story between two strangers during a night in the city of Buenos Aires.

Ropa Vieja

Ropa Vieja · 2024

On New Year's Eve, a divorced father wants his two children to meet his girlfriend so they prepare a known family recipe. But little by little the changes become noticed and the older son stands against them.

Proscenio

Proscenio · 2024

MovieComedyDrama

After an unannounced absence of the costume designer from a play, ego games, love stories and parental encounters and disagreements will be unleashed among the actors, director, and spectators who attended the ceremony.

Declamation

Declamation · 2022

MovieDramaRomance

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter herself with the happiness, love, hate and violence that exists in the small utopic island she lives in, portraying a character she is not, and under the gaze of someone else.

Filmography

Sort

Pérez

A very unlucky man gets kidnapped two times in the same day.

Assistant Director

The Impure Ones

The Impure Ones · 2019

The Impure Ones

Cali's search for her missing girlfriend will turn rather sinister after she enters an abandoned house which is not as empty as she thinks

Director

The Thirst

The Thirst · 2022

MovieFantasyRomance

Clavo is a romantic daydreamer of a boy. Polilla is a fierce and beautiful girl. They both wake up in a strange world with a terrible thirst; a world where trees have faces, and where unique and fearful creatures roam. Above all things, and nevertheless, there are no sources of food to be found. Therefore, Clavo and Polilla must come up with a plan in order to survive.

Assistant Director

Gala & Kiwi

Gala & Kiwi · 2025

MovieDramaComedy

After six years, Gala & Kiwi reunite for a special night, dancing, acting, and sharing stories of their sexual affairs. The narrative unfolds like a play, where the discomfort of pretending everything is fine hides a subtle violence.

Editor

The Stumble

The Stumble · 2023

A photographer captures a possible love story between two strangers during a night in the city of Buenos Aires.

Director

Ropa Vieja

Ropa Vieja · 2024

On New Year's Eve, a divorced father wants his two children to meet his girlfriend so they prepare a known family recipe. But little by little the changes become noticed and the older son stands against them.

Assistant Director

Proscenio

Proscenio · 2024

MovieComedyDrama

After an unannounced absence of the costume designer from a play, ego games, love stories and parental encounters and disagreements will be unleashed among the actors, director, and spectators who attended the ceremony.

Director

Declamation

Declamation · 2022

MovieDramaRomance

After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter herself with the happiness, love, hate and violence that exists in the small utopic island she lives in, portraying a character she is not, and under the gaze of someone else.

Director

SACRIFICIO

MovieDramaComedy

On the last night of their holidays, a group of high school graduates decides to make a campfire by the beach. An accident turns a dull night into one where each member throws one of his precious belongings into the fire. Blas must decide what he is willing to sacrifice to fit in with his group

Editor

Love in the time of cinema

Love in the time of cinema · 2020

Love in the time of cinema

MovieDocumentaryRomance

A filmmaker travels around time and space through the magic of montage, developing a conflict created by the gathering of different moving images he recorded with his girlfriend, making a love story given only by the love to cinema.

Director

Lech Lecha

Lech Lecha · 2020

MovieComedyRomance

Gila and Mario meet in a jewish party and run away to see the sunrise together.

Director of Photography

Remember Me Always

Remember Me Always · 2026

Remember Me Always

MovieDramaCrime

One night, Tomás, a hotel manager with a criminal past, confronts a guest playing loud music in the lobby, who claims to be waiting for her lover. He soon learns his former criminal group, led by his brother, wants to capture her to force the lover -apparently hiding in the hotel- to appear. In an effort to protect this unknown woman, Tomás faces the past he's tried to escape.

Assistant Director

The fugitives

Molain is looking for Albertine, a girl he met in the past, whose the only thing he remembers are her eyes.

Director

HOT DOGS

HOT DOGS · 2018

MovieComedyThriller

Two young men break into a family house in order to change the family point of view about sexuality. As this doesn't works, they decide to use rather violent methods.

Director

Supper's Ready

Supper's Ready · 2024

During Buenos Aires 60's two wealthy couples gather together in what would be their last supper.

Director

Staging

Staging · 2023

MovieDramaRomance

An actor is called for the project of an odd director in which there is only one condition: filming in one go while staying always in character.

Assistant Director

Your Body in My Room

Your Body in My Room · 2025

Your Body in My Room

Knowing they will never see each other again, two former lovers are acutely aware of the passing of time.

Director

Qotzuñi: People of the Lake

Qotzuñi: People of the Lake · 2024

Qotzuñi: People of the Lake

MovieDocumentaryHistory

The Uru communities of Bolivia have lived on Lake Poopó for generations. Faced with its disappearance, they must grapple with what it means to be Qotzuñi, or People of the Lake, when the lake ceases to exist.

Editor

The Ways We Love

The Ways We Love · 2024

The Ways We Love

MovieComedyDrama

Mateo and Lucía are moving abroad. The day before leaving, Mateo reunites with his lifelong friend, Dionisio, to spend one last summer afternoon together. However, as their inevitable goodbye inches closer, Mateo begins to perceive a series of strange events. In particular, he begins to hear a goat's bleat…

Assistant Director