Clarissa
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.
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Cast
22 people
Sophie Okonedo
Clarissa
Known for
After Earth
Hotel Rwanda
David Oyelowo
Peter
Known for
Selma
Star Wars Rebels
India Ria Amarteifio
Young Clarissa
Known for
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
The Midwich Cuckoos
Ayo Edebiri
Young Sally
Known for
The Bear
Big Mouth
Toheeb Jimoh
Young Peter
Known for
Ted Lasso
The Power
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Sally
Known for
Luther
Avenue 5
Jude Akuwudike
Richard
Known for
Gangs of London
Sahara
Kehinde Cardoso
Young Ugo
Also in
The Diplomat
The Other Side
Ogranya
Young Richard
Also in
Freedom Way
Something Sweet
Danny Sapani
Ugo
Known for
Halo
Penny Dreadful
Fortune Nwafor
Septimus
Also in
Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
Modesinuola Ogundiwin
Aisha
Also in
A Night in 2005
Chuko Esiri Director · Arie Esiri Director Virginia Woolf Author
Budget $5M · United States release December 11, 2026 · Produced in United States, Nigeria
Box office
Budget
$5,000,000
Production
Per Capita Productions
Production
Invention Studios
Production
Kimiera
Production
United States · Nigeria
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
France · May 16, 2026
Premiere · Cannes Directors' Fortnight
United States · December 11, 2026
Limited theatrical
United States
October 4, 2026 · Premiere · New York Film Festival
October 8, 2026 · Premiere · Mill Valley Film Festival
October 10, 2026 · Premiere · Hamptons International Film Festival
October 11, 2026 · Premiere · Houston Cinema Arts Festival
October 14, 2026 · Premiere · Santa Fe International Film Festival
October 15, 2026 · Premiere · Orcas Island Film Festival
October 16, 2026 · Premiere · Heartland Film Festival
October 17, 2026 · Premiere · New Hampshire Film Festival / Middleburg Film Festival / Philadelphia Film Festival
October 19, 2026 · Premiere · Montclair Film Festival
October 20, 2026 · Premiere · Chicago International Film Festival / Twin Cities Film Festival / Vermont International Film Festival
October 22, 2026 · Premiere · NewFest / Hawai'i International Film Festival
October 23, 2026 · Premiere · Refocus Film Festival
October 24, 2026 · Premiere · Virginia Film Festival / AFI Fest
October 30, 2026 · Premiere · SCAD Savannah Film Festival / Denver Film Festival
November 1, 2026 · Premiere · IFFBoston Fall Focus
November 4, 2026 · Premiere · Miami Film Festival GEMS
November 6, 2026 · Premiere · Coronado Island Film Festival / Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival
November 8, 2026 · Premiere · Three Rivers Film Festival
November 9, 2026 · Premiere · St. Louis International Film Festival
November 15, 2026 · Premiere · Film Fest Knox
November 19, 2026 · Premiere · Loft Film Fest
November 21, 2026 · Premiere · Key West Film Festival
Australia
August 21, 2026 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
Austria
October 28, 2026 · Premiere · Vienna International Film Festival
Brazil
October 16, 2026 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
Canada
September 11, 2026 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
September 26, 2026 · Premiere · Calgary International Film Festival
October 1, 2026 · Premiere · Vancouver International Film Festival
November 7, 2026 · Premiere · Windsor International Film Festival
December 11, 2026 · Limited theatrical
Germany
September 30, 2026 · Premiere · Filmfest Hamburg
Ireland
November 14, 2026 · Premiere · Cork International Film Festival
Italy
November 30, 2026 · Premiere · Torino Film Festival
Poland
July 25, 2026 · Premiere · TAURON New Horizons International Film Festival
South Korea
October 7, 2026 · Premiere · Busan International Film Festival
Sweden
November 15, 2026 · Premiere · Stockholm International Film Festival
Switzerland
September 27, 2026 · Premiere · Zurich Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 12, 2026 · Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
November 5, 2026 · Premiere · Cheltenham Film Festival
November 6, 2026 · Premiere · Leeds International Film Festival
November 12, 2026 · Premiere · International Film Festival Glasgow
November 13, 2026 · Premiere · CINECITY Brighton Film Festival
November 19, 2026 · Premiere · Afrika Eye Film Festival
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