Dreaming Murakami vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for Dreaming Murakami). Dreaming Murakami is the shorter watch at 58m compared with 1h 30m. Dreaming Murakami is the older of the two (2017 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Dreaming MurakamiYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 10.0/10
Year20172025
Length58m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorNitesh AnjaanEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castMette Holm, Tore Leifer, Jesper Dein, Michael Nonboe, Camilla Rohde SøndergaardRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Dreaming Murakami

When Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami's debut novel Kaze no uta o kike, Hear the Wind Sing, a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred. As Mette struggles to find the perfect sentences capable of communicating what Murakami's…

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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