The Backway: Short film explores fear and shame of migrants deported back ‘home’

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The Backway: Short film explores fear and shame of migrants deported back ‘home’

Have you ever considered what really lies in store for someone who’s been deported?

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First time director Cherno Jagne, has written, produced and starred in “The Backway” – a film that centres the experience of an economic migrant who was illegally smuggled out of the Gambia, and then deported back “home” from the UK just a couple years later.

The fear, the shame, and disappointment.

Set against the many reasons why they might have left in the first place – to seek a better life in the global North.

We’ve been speaking to the man behind the film.

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Date: October 6, 2024