Exodus

2020, Documentary

Release Year: August 25, 2020
Country: Germany
Director: Oliver Stiller, Esperanza 43
Writer: Oliver Stiller
Producer: Oliver Stiller 

In October 2018, 7000 people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador fled the rampant gang-crime and the precarious economic situation in their home countries. They joined together in a massive trek with one goal: to cross Mexico and enter the USA.

Exodus introduces the people of the first caravan of Central Americans who left everything behind but their faith in God to start a dangerous and thousands-of-kilometers-long journey into the unknown.

The lawyer and human-rights activist Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia offers insights to this event and examines the political structures of the states of Central America with regard to the exodus of the population.

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About the Director

Oliver Stiller (41) studied International Management. After realizing short films such as “Vagabund”, he is currently writing a screenplay for the German-Mexican scenic movie “Das Leben hat noch Schulden”. The short documentary “Esperanza 43“ directed by Oliver Stiller about the abducted and probably murdered students of Ayotzinapa/ Mexico won the German Human Rights Movie Award in 2016 in the short movie category. “Exodus” is the new short documentary of Oliver Stiller.