‘All God’s Children’ Review: Ondi Timoner Captures A Turbulent But Inspiring Story Of Interfaith Harmony In Gentrified Brooklyn – DOC NYC

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In the 20 years since her breakout film Dig!, about the uber-cool post-rock cold war between rival bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Ondi Timoner has positioned herself as a great explorer of the times we live in, usually while that history is still unfolding.

In the case of 2009’s We Live in Public and, in particular, last year’s The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution, she was so far ahead of the game that those films still can’t be considered case studies in the past tense, anticipating as they did the still-to-be-assessed impact of the internet on the human psyche.

All God’s Children is unusual in that, although it, too, is very much in and about the present moment, it’s a film that’s also in dialogue — thoughtfully, and powerfully — with the past.

Timoner’s poignant 2022 film Last Flight Home, which unflinchingly documented her seriously ill father’s decision to end his life in accordance with Californian law, is more representative of what to expect here, and not simply because it features another family member: her sister Rachel Timoner, a rabbi at the Congregation Beth Elohim synagogue in Brooklyn.