#1Petits contes sous l’océan
★ 6.42024
Two brothers, Adrien and Louis-Paul Desanges, took over the Studio des Ursulines art-house cinema in Paris, and the editorial team behind it grew into a service with one job: picking genuinely good films for children aged 3 to 11. Benshi pairs a free editorial guide with a paid catalogue of 250 hand-curated titles, each one tagged with an age range, a running time and a theme, and not a single advert in sight to interrupt a small viewer.
The catch is geography. The French Benshi service at benshi.fr streams only inside France and its overseas departments; step outside and the official site reports the content as unavailable, so playback simply stops. Surfshark fixes that. Connect to a French server, pick up a French IP address, and the location check on Benshi passes as if you were sitting in Paris. Picture quality holds up to 1080p, and you can watch on a laptop, a phone or a tablet.
Tested weekly by our team. Green: works, amber: partial, red: blocked.
| VPN Service | Price | Benshi | Tested | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SurfsharkBEST | From $1.78/mo | ✓ Works | June 14 | Try it |
NordVPN | From $2.99/mo | ✓ Works | June 15 | Open |
ExpressVPN | From $2.79/mo | ✓ Works | June 14 | Open |
IPVanish | From $2.19/mo | ✓ Works | June 11 | Open |
ProtonVPN | From $3.59/mo | ✓ Works | June 9 | Open |
Private Internet Access | From $1.79/mo | ✓ Works | June 11 | Open |
CyberGhost | From $1.75/mo | ✓ Works | June 15 | Open |
Takes about 2 minutes. Works on your phone, tablet, TV, PC, or laptop.
Benshi is only available in France. To access it from anywhere else, use a premium VPN.
Benshi is blocked in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada and in New Zealand, plus in 188 more countries. To access it, use a premium VPN like Surfshark.
Benshi is a French streaming service for children aged 3 to 11, built around hand-picked quality cinema rather than an endless algorithm. Its free editorial guide recommends films by age, flagging running time and themes so parents can choose with care. The paid, ad-free catalogue then unlocks 250-plus considered titles, from animation and shorts to classics and subtitled foreign films, for €4.99 a month (with a 30-day trial) or €49.99 a year, across up to five screens.

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