Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib vs Like an Island
Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib has the higher audience score (10/10 against 9/10 for Like an Island). Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the shorter watch at 46m compared with 1h 46m. Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib is the older of the two (2016 against 2022). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib
Like an Island| Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib | Like an Island | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 9.0/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2022 |
| Length | 46m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Documentary, TV Movie | Documentary, Fantasy |
| Country | – | Switzerland |
| Director | Lianne Steenkamp, Will Steenkamp | Tizian Büchi |
| Main cast | – | Daniel Nkubu, Ammar Abdul Kareem Khalaf, Elie Autin, Juliette Uzor |
Synopsis
Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib
Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib follows a lioness and her daughters as the travel through Namibia's desert with their five male cubs. The cubs are raised without a pride male and are instructed by their mothers in hunting both large prey and small. When the elderly matriarch dies, her daughters must finish the job.
Like an Island
For mysterious reasons, two watchmen are made to guard access to the river in an area of Lausanne where retirees and immigrant families live. Through the different people they encounter, a territory takes shape and a friendship is born. Tizian Büchi creates a fable—part documentary, part fiction and tinged with magical realism—to subtly question our surveillance society.
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