Exodus

Exodus 2025 is a powerful and deeply emotional film that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in modern Turkish history-the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt. Unlike many mainstream portrayals, this film offers a unique and heartfelt perspective: it tells the story of the countless innocent people associated with the Hizmet movement, inspired by Fethullah Gülen, who have suffered unimaginable injustice, persecution, and exile.

Through the lens of personal tragedy and resilience, Exodus 2025 takes viewers on a journey through the lives of teachers, doctors, journalists, and everyday citizens who were criminalized overnight for their beliefs, affiliations, or simply for being educators. The film is not just a political narrative-it is a human story. It is about loss, separation, and the strength to survive when the world turns against you.

The cinematography and storytelling are impressive, especially considering the risks involved in producing such a film. The emotional performances and the realistic portrayal of suffering give it a documentary-like authenticity while still maintaining the cinematic depth of a well-crafted drama.

This film is more than entertainment-it's a testimony. A testimony to the endurance of faith, the cost of standing up for one's values, and the silent suffering of thousands who have been unjustly punished. Whether you are familiar with the events of 2016 or not, Exodus 2025 is an eye-opening experience that invites empathy, reflection, and awareness.

Highly recommended for anyone who values human rights, freedom of thought, and justice. This is not just a Turkish story-it is a universal one.

Exodus is not just a film-it's a hauntingly emotional journey into the heart of a silenced nation. With quiet intensity and aching honesty, it sheds light on the deep-rooted human rights violations in Turkey, portraying them not as distant headlines, but as deeply personal, lived realities.

Through its raw performances and restrained yet powerful storytelling, Exodus gives voice to those who have been forgotten, repressed, or erased. Every scene is laced with a quiet urgency, confronting the audience not with sensationalism, but with truth. It doesn't scream; it whispers-and somehow, the whispers echo louder than any shout.

This film stands as a necessary act of cinematic courage. In a landscape where stories of injustice are often censored or ignored, Exodus dares to remember. It doesn't just document suffering; it humanizes it. And in doing so, it demands empathy, not pity-awareness, not avoidance.

More than a film, Exodus feels like the beginning of something greater. It sets a new precedent for how Turkish cinema can tackle political and humanitarian issues with grace, depth, and integrity. For future filmmakers seeking to explore truth through art, Exodus will serve as a landmark-a quiet but thunderous call to continue the conversation.

It leaves you not only moved, but marked.

A remarkable and deeply moving work of art that brings together the lives of individuals from diverse backgrounds, showing intersections of their stories. Despite coming from different walks of life, they are united by their shared experience of oppression, and their collective struggle, resilience, and the profound effort to truly understand one another across the divides of culture, and identity.

A powerful scenario that sets political divisions aside to explore why it is essential for us to truly understand one another. It feels as if it's based on real stories.

It tells what other people experience in their life.

My parents had to go through the same river, for being a teacher, we had go through all these... I was 12 years old when they arrested my father in front of my eyes, when I come back from school my mom had been crying for the past hours, they were just teachers whose only intention was raising golden generations, Thankfully, my dad come back two weeks later, However, we knew they were coming back, so he had to leave the country but he was on no flee list, which meant he had to go to the river, thankfully, he made it. Then they can't reach him so they were coming for my mom she was also on no flee list so she took the same path me and my uncle took her until the side of the river... Many lives were lost on that river, the ones whose stayed faced torches, families separated... Hopefully with this movie, just people will finally know what is really going on...

I'm not bias in anyway when I say, this is probably the greatest film in the history of cinema.

Some of the best directing ever witnessed.

Again without being biased I'd say this is also the work of the greatest director that has ever existed. In fact calling him a director is not enough.

I call upon all atheists to rethink their stance when a living God walks amongst us.

I heard that on set the director gave sight to a security guard who was blind and one day the catering messed up and there was no food, but the director turned the unused film neg rolls into chicken rolls and fed the crew.

On another occasion there was a scene on water and the grips couldn't get the water platform working, so the director handheld the camera and walked on the water himself to get the shot.

These are all my own opinions and I have tried to be as neutral as possible.

The director is a humble genius God.