After the Rehearsal

After the Rehearsal (2026)

Documentary

In the garden of a colonial villa in Bujumbura, five actors gather. They were summoned here to rehearse a theatre piece about a future in which all international organisations and NGOs have left East Africa. But now, as the director herself is not there, they cannot do anything but wait, and share a few stories. Nested in a mythological setup with an absent director, an unruly fictional character, a ghost and a wanderer, they tell stories about the sphere of development aid and the inequality it claims to fight. After an essayistic introduction, their narrations drift between report, fairy-tale and gossip. In an attempt to grasp a an increasingly elusive world, these monologues were developed out of stories, ideas and experiences from 5 years of artistic research and exchange between a Burundian and a German filmmaker.

Director: Philipp Fröhlich

Casts

	Valérie Christie Akamba as
	Christophe Armel Arakazandoruwanka as
	Claudia Munyengabe as
	Paulin Ndayishimiye as
	Régine Yera as
	Joyeux Nstinzi as
	El Malove Mwarimu as
	Star Rugori as

Crew