Clarissa

Film, 2026, 135 minutes

Drama

Across a single day in Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa prepares to host a high society party at her home, as her complicated past begins to consume her, in the form of now-distant friends and loves from her youth. Simultaneously, Septimus, a young soldier, is haunted by his own memories of the horrors he has witnessed and endured. As the perspectives traverse past and present, across the bourgeois class and those too easily forgotten by society, a delicate portrait of contemporary Nigeria emerges.

Directed by

Chuko Esiri, Arie Esiri

Starring

Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, India Ria Amarteifio, Ayo Edebiri