About: Exodus (2020 film)

Exodus (Persian: خروج, romanized: Ḵorouj) is a 2020 Iranian drama film written and directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia. Exodus narrates the story of Rahmat Bakhshi, a war veteran and his fellow hard-working cotton farmers that lose all their crops after their farms are inadvertently inundated with salt water from a local dam. In response, they drive their tractors to the Presidential Administration in protest. Exodus screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival, and has created controversy. The film opened on 12 April 2020.