Karin Nakajima, Sara Ouljour, and Veronica Munteau are filmmakers and students whose practices converge around the essay film as a space for reimagining politics, memory, and belonging. Nakajima approaches the form through its affinity with the unconventional, embracing strangeness as a way to probe how remembrance and identity take shape. Ouljour, based in Rotterdam and born in Morocco, turns to both film and writing to address questions of migration and anti-imperialism. Munteau, a Moldovan filmmaker and writer, moves fluidly between poetry, prose, and experimental cinema, her work unfolding through an intuitive process of noticing, questioning, and remembering. Together, their practices highlight the essay film’s potential as both a tool of inquiry and a mode of poetic and political expression.