THE FLIGHT
Documentary 2026 | 97 min
A National Film Board of Canada production
SYNOPSIS
On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 departed Tehran carrying 176 passengers and crew members, including university students, newlywed couples and young children. Minutes after takeoff, the civilian aircraft was struck by two surface-to-air missiles, killing everyone on board.
Director Soran Mardookhi’s feature documentary The Flight follows the lives of family members left behind in their relentless pursuit of truth, justice and accountability for their lost loved ones.
Credits
Written and Directed by
Soran Mardookhi
Producer
Shirley Vercruysse
Teri Snelgrove
Executive Producer
Shirley Vercruysse
Tina Ouellette
Line Producer
Jennifer Roworth
Director of Photography
Dany Lavoie
Editor
Abbas Mojarad
Sound Design
Miguel Nunes
Featuring
(in order of appearance)
Hamed Esmaeilion
Armin Morattab
Huriran Sohrab
Alborz Sadeghi
Amirali Alavi
Shahnaz Morattab
Maral Gorginpour
Navaz Ebrahim
Kourosh Doustshenas
Yasin Shafaghi
Mohsen Ahmadipour
Gissou Nia
Haydee Dijkstal
Shahla Ghasri
Hassan Morattab
Arash Morattab
Vahid Emami
Manzar Zarabi
Abas Sadeghi
Jamshid Rahmanifar
Amir Borghei
Sima Ghaffarzadeh
Beheshteh Rezapour
Nima Neyestani
Azadeh Heydaripour
Azamat Azhdari
Camera Operator
Darcy Muenchrath
Michael Grippo
Sound Recordist
Adam White
Dave Pullmer
Gaëlle Komár
Production Manager
Eloane Venkatapen
Location Manager
Toby Karass-Rohan
Data Management Technician
Q’mal Labad-Workman
Production Assistant
Henna Mann
Jan Dalton
Q’mal Labad-Workman
Toby Karass-Rohan
Senior Production Coordinator
Lee Clapp
Technical Coordinator
Lyne Lapointe
Wes Machnikowski
Translator
Ava Homa
Consultant
Farzan Sojoodi
Assistant Editor
Nicholas Ogden
Proofreader
Maral Gorginpour
Post Production Sound services provided by
Maverick Post Group Inc.
Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer
Miguel Nunes
Sound Editors
D’wayne Murray
May Guimarães
Jake Kerr
Supervising Re-recording Mixer
Miguel Nunes
Re-recording Mixer
Richard Maddock
Mix Technician
Jeff Grout
Colourist
Serge Verreault
Motion Design
Mélanie Bouchard
Additional Graphics
Cynthia Ouellet
Editing Support and Conform
Patrick Trahan
Marcus Matyas
Pierre Dupont
Albert Kurian
Improvised Music
Serbest
Showan Tavakol
Senior Marketing Advisor
Jamie Hammond
Marketing Project Manager
Melissa Haughton
Marketing Coordinator
Jolène Lessard
Publicist
Katja De Bock
Production Administrator
Nathan Conchie
Carla Jones
A National Film Board of Canada production
Media Relations
Katja De Bock
NFB Publicist – Vancouver
C.: 778-628-4890
k.debock@nfb.ca | @NFB_Katja
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