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Clarissa

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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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Status
Released
Budget
$5M
Box office
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Language
English
  • suicide
  • post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
  • based on novel or book
  • modernity
  • poet
  • nigeria
  • colonialism
  • lgbt
  • reflection
  • aspiring writer
  • lagos
  • former lovers

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

United States of America

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Videos

Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew York Film Festival4 Oct 2026
    • PremiereMill Valley Film Festival8 Oct 2026
    • PremiereHamptons International Film Festival10 Oct 2026
    • PremiereHouston Cinema Arts Festival11 Oct 2026
    • PremiereSanta Fe International Film Festival14 Oct 2026
    • PremiereOrcas Island Film Festival15 Oct 2026
    • PremiereHeartland Film Festival16 Oct 2026
    • PremiereNew Hampshire Film Festival / Middleburg Film Festival / Philadelphia Film Festival17 Oct 2026
    • PremiereMontclair Film Festival19 Oct 2026
    • PremiereChicago International Film Festival / Twin Cities Film Festival / Vermont International Film Festival20 Oct 2026
    • PremiereNewFest / Hawai'i International Film Festival22 Oct 2026
    • PremiereRefocus Film Festival23 Oct 2026
    • PremiereVirginia Film Festival / AFI Fest24 Oct 2026
    • PremiereSCAD Savannah Film Festival / Denver Film Festival30 Oct 2026
    • PremiereIFFBoston Fall Focus1 Nov 2026
    • PremiereMiami Film Festival GEMS4 Nov 2026
    • PremiereCoronado Island Film Festival / Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival6 Nov 2026
    • PremiereThree Rivers Film Festival8 Nov 2026
    • PremiereSt. Louis International Film Festival9 Nov 2026
    • PremiereFilm Fest Knox15 Nov 2026
    • PremiereLoft Film Fest19 Nov 2026
    • PremiereKey West Film Festival21 Nov 2026
    • Theatrical (limited)11 Dec 2026
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival12 Oct 2026
    • PremiereCheltenham Film Festival5 Nov 2026
    • PremiereLeeds International Film Festival6 Nov 2026
    • PremiereInternational Film Festival Glasgow12 Nov 2026
    • PremiereCINECITY Brighton Film Festival13 Nov 2026
    • PremiereAfrika Eye Film Festival 19 Nov 2026
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival21 Aug 2026
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival11 Sept 2026
    • PremiereCalgary International Film Festival26 Sept 2026
    • PremiereVancouver International Film Festival1 Oct 2026
    • PremiereWindsor International Film Festival7 Nov 2026
    • Theatrical (limited)11 Dec 2026
  • AustriaAT

    • PremiereVienna International Film Festival28 Oct 2026
  • BrazilBR

    • PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival16 Oct 2026
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Directors' Fortnight16 May 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereFilmfest Hamburg 30 Sept 2026
  • IrelandIE

    • PremiereCork International Film Festival14 Nov 2026
  • PolandPL

    • PremiereTAURON New Horizons International Film Festival25 Jul 2026
  • South KoreaKR

    • Premiere15Busan International Film Festival7 Oct 2026
  • SwedenSE

    • PremiereStockholm International Film Festival15 Nov 2026

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Clarissa was released on 11 December 2026.

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