Country: USA, Egypt, Nigeria
Year: 2026
Duration: 135'
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. Directors Arie and Chuko, adapting Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, take the renowned source material and deliver a unique and deeply felt story.
Biography
film director
Arie Esiri
(Warri, Nigeria, 1985) graduated in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University, New York; he later began to work as a producer and to direct commercials. In New York he collaborated with his twin brother Chuko on two shorts. Together, they made Goose (2015), presented at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Arie produced Chuko's short Besida (2016), presented at many international film festivals, including the Berlinale and the BFI London Film Festival. Eyimofe, their first feature film, was selected for the Forum in Berlin, and in competition at Torino Film Festival. Clarissa is their second feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Goose (coregia Chuko Esiri, cm, 2015), Eyimofe (This Is My Desire, coregia Chuko Esiri, 2020), Clarissa (coregia Chuko Esiri, 2026).
Chuko Esiri
(Warri, Nigeria, 1985) graduated in screenwriting and directing from New York University. In New York, he collaborated with his twin brother Arie on two shorts. Together, they made Goose (2015), presented at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Arie produced Chuko's short, Besida (2016), presented at many international film festivals, including the Berlinale and the BFI London Film Festival. Eyimofe, their first feature film, was selected for the Forum in Berlin, and the at Torino Film Festival. Clariss is their second feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Goose (coregia Chuko Esiri, cm, 2015), Besida (cm, 2016), Eyimofe (This Is My Desire, coregia Chuko Esiri, 2020), Clarissa (coregia Chuko Esiri, 2026).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTORS: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri. BASED ON: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. SCREENPLAY: Chuko Esiri. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jonathan Bloom. EDITING: Blair McClendon. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Hanrui Wang. MUSIC: Kelsey Lu. CAST: Sophie Okonedo, Ayo Edebiri, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Toheeb Jimoh, Fortune Nwafor. PRODUCTION: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri, Theresa Park for Capita Productions; Nicky Weinstock for Invention Studios. CONTACT: Neon - www.neonrated.com
