As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty vs Yalla Habibi!
Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty). Yalla Habibi! is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 4h 48m. As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Yalla Habibi!| As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | Yalla Habibi! | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2025 |
| Length | 4h 48m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Jonas Mekas | Edwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger |
| Main cast | Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton | Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou |
Synopsis
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
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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