Chasing Ice vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Chasing Ice). Chasing Ice is the shorter watch at 1h 14m compared with 1h 30m. Chasing Ice is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Chasing Ice posterChasing Ice2012 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
Chasing IceYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20122025
Length1h 14m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorJeff OrlowskiEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castJames Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter, Louie Psihoyos, Kitty BooneRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Chasing Ice

When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.

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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