Bear Island vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.9/10 for Bear Island). Bear Island is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 1h 30m. Bear Island is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bear Island posterBear Island2014 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
Bear IslandYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 5.9/10★ 10.0/10
Year20142025
Length1h 25m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorEdda Trandum Grjotheim, Inge WeggeEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main cast–Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Bear Island

Three brothers wish to surf waves no one has surfed before them. The answer is to go to Bjørnøya, the island next to the better known Spitsbergen. For two months they live on the island, self sufficient in food and equipment.

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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