Abstract

Due to the deepening of migrant crises, the issue of juvenile migration has received considerable attention not only among political activists, researchers of various fields, but also artists and filmmakers. There is a great number of short films addressing the representation of children crossing/living/imagining borders. The paper examines a range of short films which depict children experiencing borderlands or tell a story directly from the child’s perspective. It also considers short films, which involve vivid imagery of minors. The critical optic of this paper seeks to unravel the narrative construction of the image of a child as a border-crosser. The study also intends to demonstrate how short film authors explore and re-examine border practices and policies through the lens of childhood across various cultural, spatial, and temporal dimensions