Last Flight Home

Q&A with director Ondi Timoner, moderated by filmmaker Joe Berlinger

2022. 101 m. Ondi Timoner. Interloper Films. US. English. Rated NR.

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Behind a white picket fence, on an unremarkable suburban street, we discover Eli Timoner, who founded Air Florida, the fastest growing airline in the world in the 1970’s. During his final days, we discover his extraordinary life filled with incredible success and devastating setbacks, and most importantly, an innate goodness which won him the enduring love and support of his family. Through stunning verité footage recorded by his middle child, Last Flight Home takes audiences on a heart-wrenching ride through Timoner’s life, illustrating a modern day success story built on the power of human connection.

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"Ultimately, and perhaps most beautifully, the film makes a case, à la the musical Rent, about how, in the end, we must measure our life in love. On that score, Eli Timoner left the world a very wealthy man."
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

"Last Flight is at once a memorial to Eli, the last of that generation of the family to die, and — almost incidentally — a philosophical argument about how death can be faced well. "
Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times

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12/4 2PM: Q&A with filmmaker Ondi Timoner, moderated by JBFC Director of Film Programs and Curator-in-Chief Ryan Harrington

Sunday, Dec. 4 2022, 2:00

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Ondi Timoner is known to be one of the greatest talents in non-fiction filmmaking. She often takes on the stories of visionaries fighting against all odds with a gripping and unique mixed-media, narrative style. Ondi has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice - for her documentaries DIG! (2004) and We Live In Public (2009). Both films were acquired by MoMA, NY for its permanent collection. Other award-winning features include: The Nature of the Beast (1994), Join Us (2007), Cool It (2010), Brand: A Second Coming (2015) & Coming Clean (2020). Timoner has also directed countless award-winning shorts, among them "Library of Dust" in 2011, "Amanda Palmer on the Rocks" in 2014 and "The Last Mile" in 2015.