Tenerife vs Yalla Habibi!

Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.5/10 for Tenerife). Tenerife is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 30m. Tenerife is the older of the two (2005 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Tenerife posterTenerife2005 VS Yalla Habibi! posterYalla Habibi!2025
TenerifeYalla Habibi!
Audience score★ 8.5/10★ 10.0/10
Year20052025
Length1h 27m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryUnited States of AmericaCanada
DirectorChantal HébertEdwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger
Main castPaul Bandey, Anne Cart, Lee Delong, Mike Dineen, James GerardRyan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou

Synopsis

Tenerife

March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.

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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