Clarissa

Clarissa

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Release Date

12/11/2026

Runtime

135 mins

Genres

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

-

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A languid evening of reckoning where old friends circle each other with the weight of shared history and unspoken longing. Watching it feels like inhabiting a single night that somehow contains decades.

Mood

BittersweetWistfulContemplativeRomantic

Themes

MemoryLoveIdentityFriendshipComing apart

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticPainterly

Structure

Single location

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Clarissa (2026) directed by Chuko Esiri | FirstCinema