K2: The Impossible Descent vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for K2: The Impossible Descent). K2: The Impossible Descent is the shorter watch at 1h 6m compared with 1h 30m. K2: The Impossible Descent is the older of the two (2020 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

K2: The Impossible Descent posterK2: The Impossible Descent2020 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
K2: The Impossible DescentYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 10.0/10
Year20202025
Length1h 6m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryPolandCanada
DirectorSławomir BatyraEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castJimmy Chin, Adrian Ballinger, Andrzej Bargiel, Hilaree Nelson, Grzegorz BargielRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

K2: The Impossible Descent

On July 22 2018, a Polish ski mountaineer clicked into his bindings at an altitude of 8,611m to make history. Follow Andrzej Bargiel’s expedition from Poland to Pakistan, as he descends K2 on skis.

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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