Nirizi, Zoe.  2004.

United Kingdom.  27 min.

The Corridor tells the story of a young Iranian woman who becomes politically active in opposing Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime in the 1980’s. She is made to pay a heavy price, not only in terms of her immediate suffering, her torture and imprisonment at the hands of the regime, but the deeper pain of having her daughter, born in prison, taken away by the authorities, to be brought up by her husband’s family. She is then forced to leave Iran and comes to Britain. The Corridor connects the personal and the political through an unflinching look at the nature of organized State violence and by the price paid by those who stand up to it. The film aims at a poetic realism, that both gives the viewer a moral perspective on the events and shows their devastating effects on those caught up in them.

Produced by Black Swan Films.