Leaving Jesus vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Leaving Jesus). Leaving Jesus is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 30m. Leaving Jesus is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Leaving Jesus posterLeaving Jesus2024 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
Leaving JesusYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20242025
Length1h 27m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorEllen FiskeEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main cast–Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Leaving Jesus

A group of former Christians Fundamentalists come together during a retreat in San Francisco to deal with what they’ve gone through, both as active in a restrictive congregation but also as defectors of a congregation that gave them meaning in life.

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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