After the Rehearsal (2026)
Director: Philipp Fröhlich
Cast: Valérie Christie Akamba, Christophe Armel Arakazandoruwanka, Claudia Munyengabe, Paulin Ndayishimiye, Régine Yera
In the garden of a colonial villa in Bujumbura, five actors come together for a rehearsal that never quite begins. They have been called to stage a play set in a future East Africa abandoned by every international organisation and NGO, but with the director missing, all they can do is wait and trade stories. Framed by myth, an absent director, a rebellious fictional figure, a ghost and a wanderer,