Documentary 'Air India 182' delves into 1985 bombing that killed 329 people

Toronto: "Air India 182" is one of the marquee entries at the Hot Docs film festival, yet it's a movie so gripping and suspenseful in its retelling of a large-scale tragedy that it frequently seems like a tautly written drama instead of grim reality.
The film, from Toronto-based Sturla Gunnarsson, delves into the events leading up to the deadliest airborne terrorist attack until 9-11, and the biggest mass murder in Canadian history - the bombing of Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland that left 329 people dead, many of them children.
The film - which premieres Thursday at the festival - intersperses newsreel footage and inconspicuous re-enactments of the men who plotted the bombing with searing segments involving the victims' relatives, sitting against a snow-white backdrop as they recount the last time they saw their family members alive.
A tearful daughter recalls how she decided against travelling as a teenager with her mother to spend the summer in India that day in June 1985.
A grief-stricken father remembers how he reluctantly let his children travel overseas by themselves for the first time.
A weeping mother tells how she was only able to find the remains of one of her young sons in Ireland, causing her to hope against hope that somehow her other boy had managed to survive the bombing and would eventually show up back in Canada.
16/04/08 The Canadian Press, Toronto

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