Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In times of crisis, the Timoners stick together. When family patriarch Eli Timoner suffered a debilitating stroke in 1982 – at the ...

Veteran documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her wife, Morgan Doctor, were working on a film in Rome on Jan. 7 when they got a late-night phone call. It was Timoner’s brother. He was calling to ...

There’s a Jewish phrase that people often say after someone dies: “May their memory be a blessing.” It represents different things to different people, but is intended as an active remembrance, a way ...

Director Ondi Timoner creates an intimate and deeply personal portrait of an ending-a-life journey. In 1982, Eli Timoner had been flying high. His wife, Elissa and their kids — Rachel, Ondi and David ...

If there’s a unifying element to the documentaries that Pasadena-based Ondi Timoner has been directing for the past three decades, it’s her enduring fascination with confidently delusional men: ...

"Dig!" filmmaker Ondi Timoner cuts home video footage of her father's euthanasia into an honest and moving argument that everyone should have the same right. When Ondi Timoner’s 92-year-old father ...

Editor’s note: This article contains discussion of suicide. “Last Flight Home” is the most riveting, piercing and raw documentary I have ever sat through. A family love story that forces the viewer to ...

Toolkit Ep. 177: "DIG!" and "We Live in Public" director Ondi Timoner on the unintentional road to "Last Flight Home." Timoner’s goal was to make the cameras as invisible as possible, and even she ...

When Ondi Timoner began to film her family and her father as he waited the obligatory 15 days before opting for death with dignity, she never intended to make a feature-length documentary. As she ...

Towards the end of his life, when Eli Timoner’s weakened body was failing him, he called his daughter, the filmmaker Ondi Timoner, and told her he was ready to go. “If they can give me goodbye powder, ...

This review originally ran January 24, 2022, for the film’s Sundance Film Festival premiere. There’s a Jewish phrase that people often say after someone dies: “May their memory be a blessing.” It ...

If there’s a unifying element to the documentaries that Pasadena-based Ondi Timoner has been directing for the past three decades, it’s her enduring fascination with confidently delusional men: ...