A selection at Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, and London Film Festival, Ondi Timoner’s latest documentary Last Flight Home takes a personal look at her own family’s search for closure. Set for a release on October 7 from MTV Documentary Films, the first trailer has now arrived.
On an unremarkable suburban street, we find Eli Timoner in his final days and discover an extraordinary life, one filled with wild achievements, tragic loss and, above all, enduring love. His daughter Ondi shares an unforgettable and stunning verité account of a family courageously, and joyously, facing both life and death.
John Fink said in his review, “In her most personal and intimate film, master documentarian Ondi Timoner (We Live in Public, Cool It, Dig) turns an intended family tribute for a virtual memorial into a moving, bittersweet feature. In Last Flight Home, the Timoner family and immediate friends gather in Los Angeles to send off their father Eli Timoner. Only partially a biographical sketch, the bulk of the film is centered around the process of the send off. California’s End of Life Option Act offers terminally ill patients that are of sound mind the option to end their lives following a series of evaluations that occur during a 15-day period. The process requires at least two doctors agreeing with the assessment.”
See the trailer below.
Last Flight Home opens on October 7.