Everest Dark vs Like an Island
Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 9/10 for Like an Island). Everest Dark is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 46m. Like an Island is the older of the two (2022 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Everest Dark
Like an Island| Everest Dark | Like an Island | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 9.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2022 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary, Fantasy |
| Country | Canada | Switzerland |
| Director | Jereme Watt | Tizian Büchi |
| Main cast | Jaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa | Daniel Nkubu, Ammar Abdul Kareem Khalaf, Elie Autin, Juliette Uzor |
Synopsis
Everest Dark
Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of the world’s highest mountain also has another, overlooked side: the local one. For around the huge mountain between Nepal and Tibet lives a local population with their own worldview, which is very…
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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