Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker). Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker is the shorter watch at 1h 23m compared with 1h 30m. Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker posterBuñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker2021 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
Buñuel: A Surrealist FilmmakerYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 10.0/10
Year20212025
Length1h 23m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorJavier EspadaEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castAlfonso de Lucas Buñuel, Javier Espada, María José MorenoRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker

Javier Espada explores how Luis Buñuel, one of the greatest precursors of surrealist cinema through works like An Andalusian Dog and The Golden Age, began to move away from this movement but never completely abandoned it, maintaining a strong oneiric element in his films. Taking us deep into his past and evolution as a creator, this documentary provides an unprecedented window into the world and work of an irreplaceable genius whose influence…

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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