Kestrel's Eye vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.3/10 for Kestrel's Eye). Kestrel's Eye is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 30m. Kestrel's Eye is the older of the two (1998 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Kestrel's Eye posterKestrel's Eye1998 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
Kestrel's EyeYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 6.3/10★ 10.0/10
Year19982025
Length1h 29m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorMikael KristerssonEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main cast–Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Kestrel's Eye

Swedish filmmaker Mikael Kristersson directs this austere yet beautiful experimental documentary about two European falcons. Shot over the course of two years, Kristersson manages to fashion a narrative without the use of voice-overs or music, showing the falcons as they forage for food and tend to their eggs. Much of this film, though, is spent viewing the world from the falcons' vantage point -- high up on a 13th century church steeple…

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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