The Hockey Player vs Yalla Habibi!
Yalla Habibi! has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Hockey Player). The Hockey Player is the shorter watch at 1h 20m compared with 1h 30m. Yalla Habibi! is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Hockey Player
Yalla Habibi!| The Hockey Player | Yalla Habibi! | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 20m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Jacqueline Doorey | Edwin El Bainou, Ryan Kluftinger |
| Main cast | Luke Prokop, Jacob Tierney, Mark Borowiecki, Gary Bettman, Brock McGillis | Ryan Kluftinger, Connor Bondlow, Edwin El Bainou |
Synopsis
The Hockey Player
A documentary that follows Canadian-born defenseman Luke Prokop as he decides to become the first — and still only — professional athlete playing under contract to an NHL team to come out as gay. Growing up in Edmonton steeped in Canada’s tough, often homophobic hockey culture, and playing without gay role models throughout professional sports, Luke’s path to coming out of the closet has been neither easy nor obvious. The film charts Prokop’s…
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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