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Better Than Chocolate is a movie about bouldering in Switzerland.

"Why Switzerland? The answer is pretty simple. Fontainebleau aside, it probably has the largest concentration of bouldering areas in Europe and arguably the best gneiss rock anywhere. Also It is the land of many historical ascents including first 8B, 8B+ and 8C (Fred Nicole).

The idea for Better Than Chocolate was to simply remind us that climbing is our way to enjoy life rather than emphasis performance or trying to "look cool". Still, in term of performance, Better Than Chocolate delivers with first ascents and repeats up to 8C boulder.

Staring Michele Caminati, Paul Robinson, Robert Leistner, Julia Winter, Chris Webb Parsons, Anthony Gullsten, Olivier Mignon, Jule Wurm, Anton Johansson, Antoine Eydoux and Fred Moix. Guest appearance by Fred Nicole. Shot on location in Magic Wood, Chironico, Cresciano, Brione and many more areas.

This is my first feature film (and also Belgium's first bouldering movie) and it was shot entirely with homemade cinema gear. I hope you'll enjoy watching it as much as i enjoyed making it."

-Haroun Souirji



Follow the movie on facebook:
facebook.com/pages/Better-Than-Chocolate/165074810195544


Movie now available as
HD download & DVD // Both include the bonus features ;-)
betterthanchocolate-movie.com


Music is "Rigid Breakfast" from
myspace.com/maushausmusic
  • √an Lu 1 year ago
    totally PRO!
    I Love the mouse running secuence...
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  • Alvi Pakarinen plus 1 year ago
    looking good, dude! :)
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  • LoKan Sardari plus 1 year ago
    Très très bonne vidéo les gars.
    Bravo.

    C'est tourné avec quoi niveau matos? Un DSLR?
  • Haroun Souirji plus 11 months ago
    Merci!

    C'est tourné avec des DSLR EOS oui.
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  • butcher - climb.pl plus 1 year ago
    nice :] posted on climb.pl
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  • Johannes Marschick plus 1 year ago
    a very nice film with amazing spots in there :)
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  • Simon Cramar 1 year ago
    Yiiiiiiiihaaa!!!
    Petite question "technique" :) de 00:00 à 00:05 pour le titre de la prod. : tu as fait un suivi de mouvement avec AE ou c'est autre chose (ou bien le magicien ne révèle jamais son tour?)?
    Yiiiiiiiihaaa!!!
    Bientôt dans l'onglet "Discover" de Vimeo :)
    Edit : posté !!

    $im'
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  • Chris Lew 1 year ago
    The strength to do that is astounding!
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  • Laurens Neels 1 year ago
    Wow this is insane! Can't believe my eyes..
    Cool!
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  • miche collins 1 year ago
    wow...
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  • Roland Öller 1 year ago
    Looks very cool!
    What I don´t understand about Bouldering is this: It must be very painfull. Why would you pick such a sport?
    Can this question be answered or is it a case of "If you have to ask, you will never understand it."? :-)
  • Carlos from Philly 1 year ago
    The enjoyment vastly outweighs the pains. Like any truly great sport, in the quest for the payoff you shed a little blood.
    In the long run, though, the body thanks you by getting stronger and gives you the satisfaction of being able to climb harder and harder.
    It works out nicely, especially once you realize that getting banged up while climbing or waking up every day with sore fingers isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.

    Most importantly of all, though, there's nothing in the world that comes close to being as fun.
  • Roland Öller 1 year ago
    Okay, that makes sense. I sometimes wish, I was more "in tune" with my body like that. ;-) Thanks for your reply.
  • Haroun Souirji plus 11 months ago
    Very well put Carlos.
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  • obiss plus 1 year ago
    Nice angles. Love the spider shot!
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  • The Film Artist plus 1 year ago
    Brilliant work Haroun :)
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  • Luis Iruela 1 year ago
    Congrats on the great work!!! Took the liberty of sharing to boulderfreaks.blogspot.com/.
    Thanks for a brilliant 3 minutes!!!!
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  • ZeBloc plus 1 year ago
    looks great!

    What kind of hardware did you use?
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  • Paul Robinson 11 months ago
    looookin good haroun! psyched!!
  • Haroun Souirji plus 11 months ago
    Hey!

    Thanks Paul!
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  • Fred Moix 11 months ago
    Can't wait!! Love the rythm..
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  • billdey plus 11 months ago
    Superbe! Très bon choix de musique, des plans qui sortent des sentiers battus, du méchant grimpeur et du bon flou de chez Canon (c'est Mat qui va être content :)
    Bravo Haroun
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  • Haroun Souirji plus 11 months ago
    Merci! Je fais ce que je peux, je débutte en vidéo :)

    Sinon Mat, c'est qui?

    Ciao,
    Haroun
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  • Oli Boyes 11 months ago
    I can not wait... Looking like some of the finest bits of filming ive ever seen ion a climbing film!
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  • billdey plus 11 months ago
    Mat c'est un pote vidéaste, irréductible gaulois à cassette miniDV, face à l'envahisseur DSLR...
    (et comme je suppose qu'il va passer sur cette page et lire ces lignes... :)
  • Haroun Souirji plus 11 months ago
    Aha ok :)
  • Henneteau Mathieu plus 11 months ago
    Excellent, bien rythmé, du bon boulot.
    Concernant le flou, les vidéos DSLR sont monnaies courantes, faut juste que je fasse une cure ;-)
  • billdey plus 11 months ago
    T'as déjà fait le premier pas en achetant un 550D
    Tu vas voir que toi aussi tu y viendras s'il le faut...
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  • Mirabille 10 months ago
    Du talent, bravo et merci de poser ton regard sur notre grimpeur belgo-belge Mignon... hâte de voir une petite réalisation sur notre plat mais falaiseux pays à l'occasion ! Enfin, nous avons notre réalisateur officiel, Bravo et surtout une très belle continuation dans ton travail....
  • Haroun Souirji plus 10 months ago
    Merci! C'est très gentils.

    Pour l'instant filmer des voies n'est pas dans mes plans (bien que j'adore la falaise...) mais j'essaie d'amener Olivier dans un projet de bloc pas trop loins de chez moi... ;-)

    Ciao!
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  • Carter Crawford 10 months ago
    sick video what song is that?
  • Haroun Souirji plus 10 months ago
    Thanks!

    Music is "Rigid Breakfast" from
    myspace.com/maushausmusic
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  • Black Revolver Films 9 months ago
    This looks cool, what did you shoot on?
  • Haroun Souirji plus 9 months ago
    Thank you! Shot on 7D and 550D. A few short shots with a GoPro.
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  • KORE 24 7 months ago
    awesome!!!
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  • Miroslava Lukáčová 7 months ago
    very well! I love bouldering!.. nicely processed video :)
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  • Diego Ortiz 7 months ago
    Dude you rock!!
    get it?? hahaha great joke XD

    now serious im starting bouldering, and this is a great inspiration!

    great video
  • Haroun Souirji plus 7 months ago
    Man that is the best joke ever! ;-)

    Thank you for the kind words!
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  • V3KP plus 7 months ago
    Thanks for the comment about the Squamish piece. Better Than Chocolate is super amazing!
  • Haroun Souirji plus 7 months ago
    Thank you very much!
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  • Denis 4 weeks ago
    Very nice!)
    What lens you use?
    Thank.
  • Haroun Souirji plus 3 weeks ago
    Thanks! Mostly used the Sigma 30mm 1.4 and Sigma 10-20 (don't use the 10-20 anymore).
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