Please note…

This online screening has reached its registration capacity*.
* Except Arts Circle and Film Lover Members – see ‘Registration Information’ below.

Film Independent Members, you and a guest are invited to watch Last Flight Home in our Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room, powered by Vision Media. A special pre-recorded conversation with director Ondi Timoner and subject Rachel Timoner, moderated by Josh Welsh (President, Film Independent) is included.

Behind a white picket fence, on an unremarkable suburban street, we discover 92-year-old Eli Timoner, who founded Air Florida, the fastest growing airline in the world in the 1970s. During his final days, we discover his extraordinary life filled with incredible success and devastating setbacks and, most importantly, the innate goodness that 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 an unforgettable ride through Timoner’s life, illustrating a modern-day success story built on the power of human connection.

Two-time winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Grand Jury Prize (Dig!, We Live in Public), Ondi Timoner has created her most personal verité film yet, which intimately portrays her family’s challenging journey to find closure and invites us into a rare and honest confrontation and conversation with mortality. The film is not only a unique and open display of the process of death, without inhibition or sanitization, but also a humanization of the journey of a family ‘midwifing’ a patriarch through his final days. Rather than placing death at a distance — as something that happens to someone else — the film invites the audience to experience this mysterious and often terrifying part of life alongside the Timoner family and encourages them to get to know Ondi’s father — his triumphs, and his struggles, and how he works to make peace with them just before he passes on. As the Timoners open up their lives to offer an enlightening view of a universal experience, they demonstrate the grace and connection that can emerge from embracing death. Through laughter and joy, they share a lasting legacy which demonstrates how we might live, even as we die.

 
2022, 104 minutes, color | Written by Ondi Timoner | Directed by Ondi Timoner | Starring Eli Timoner, Lisa Timoner, Rachel Timoner, David Timoner | Produced by Ondi Timoner, David Turner | Executive Produced by Sheila Nevins, Obi Eisen, Mirit Eisen
 

Registration Information

All Film Independent Members can register for this online screening starting at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, September 28. | Registration is free; one registration per Membership. | Proof of Member status is required to complete registration.

Arts Circle and Film Lover Members are guaranteed access to this event; email membership@filmindependent.org for more information.

How to Watch

On the first day of screening availability, registered Members (and guests, when applicable) will be emailed a secure link by our partner Vision Media to watch this title in the Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room.

Online Screening Policies

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