Icarus vs Yalla Habibi!
Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for Icarus). Yalla Habibi! is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 1m. Icarus is the older of the two (2017 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Icarus
Yalla Habibi!| Icarus | Yalla Habibi! | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2017 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 1m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Bryan Fogel | Edwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger |
| Main cast | Bryan Fogel, Dave Zabriskie, Don Catlin, Grigory Rodchenkov, Scott Brandt | Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou |
Synopsis
Icarus
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
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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