Like an Island vs Yalla Habibi!
Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 9/10 for Like an Island). Yalla Habibi! 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.
Like an Island
Yalla Habibi!| Like an Island | Yalla Habibi! | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2022 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 46m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary, Fantasy | Documentary |
| Country | Switzerland | Canada |
| Director | Tizian Büchi | Edwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger |
| Main cast | Daniel Nkubu, Ammar Abdul Kareem Khalaf, Elie Autin, Juliette Uzor | Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou |
Synopsis
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.
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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