Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour). Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour is the shorter watch at 55m compared with 1h 30m. Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour is the older of the two (2010 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20102025
Length55m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorMatthew SpringfordEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castAi WeiweiRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained for 11 weeks. Architect, photographer, curator and blogger, Ai Weiwei is China's most famous and politically outspoken contemporary artist. Alan Yentob explores the story of Ai Weiwei's life and art, and reveals how this most courageous and determined of artists continues to fight for artistic…

Yalla Habibi!

FortNine attempts to break the circumnavigation world record with award-winning filmmaker Edwin El Bainou riding pillion. It's a dangerously silly race across thousands of kilometres per day, with the polished and authentic eye that only a ride-along cinematographer can capture. Part documentary and part dark comedy, this is motorcycling as FortNine has never shown before. In less than 19 days, the trio must ride from Anchorage to Miami, Lisbon…

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