Last Flight Home

In Last Flight Home, acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner chronicles the last days of her father, Eli Timoner, a visionary entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded a successful airline in the 1970s.

The aptures the final weeks of 92-year-old Eli’s life after he decides to end it under California’s End of Life Option Act. The film offers a profoundly intimate portrayal of love, loss, and the courage it takes to say goodbye.

And while it might sound like a very painful film to make, Ondi Timoner says it wasn’t.

Ondi Timoner recorded her 92-year-old father’s decline and assisted suicide for what became her documentary Last Flight Home. It might sound like the hardest possible film to make, but it wasn’t.

“I think it was probably the easiest film I’ve ever made, in a lot of ways, because it was so personally satisfying to make,” she says on the Actual Facts podcast. “It was something that was almost involuntary. I was grieving my father, and loving spending time with him, editing the film. and so sure I would cry. But he was so funny, so I would laugh and laugh and laugh.”

You can watch Last Flight Home on Paramount+ or purchase it at Amazon and other platforms.