ICA's video: Crossings: Stories of Migration Little Alien discussion

A discussion with Charlotte Jamieson (from the NSPCC Child Trafficking Unit) and filmmakers Nina Kusturica (director of Little Aliens) and Sue Claytons, chaired by Dr Áine McMurtry After screening of the Little Aliens at Institute of Contemporary Arts on 1 September 2017. https://www.ica.art/whats-on/crossings-little-alien-discussion Little Alien, dir. Nina Kusturica, Austria 2009 Teenagers Juma and Hishame attempt an extremely dangerous journey to Europe, hiding in the chassis of a truck, where they will become the prey of border officers. Ahmed, Nura, Achmad and Asha haver managed to get over the fences. Jawid and Alem have already spent a year and a half in Vienna, hoping their asylum applications will be approved. They’re teenagers fleeing from crisis regions on a dangerous journey to Europe, all alone and hoping for one thing: survival. Upon arriving in Austria, they fight to lead normal lives, struggling against a system that demands they sacrifice their youth to an uncertain future. Nina Kusturica’s prize-winning documentary charts the experiences of unaccompanied minors from Central Africa and eastern Central Asia who hide in the undercarriage of trucks, scale fences and undertake perilous sea journeys to Fortress Europe. As part of this event, we also screened an excerpt from Calais Children: A Case to Answer by Sue Claytons. https://www.ica.art/whats-on/season/crossings-stories-migration https://www.crossings2017.co.uk/ Crossings: Stories of Migration is an ICA-led UK-wide film and events programme supported by the BFI using National Lottery funding, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and the School of Film & Television, Falmouth University