#1The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.
Afternoons of Solitude
★ 6.92025
Back in 2016 a cooperative in the tiny village of Lussas decided arthouse documentary deserved its own home, and the result was Tënk, the first subscription service built entirely around creative documentary. A handful of hand-picked films land on Tënk each week, chosen one by one by real programmers rather than an algorithm. Because Tënk runs as a cooperative, no big streaming group owns it and the line-up keeps its independent character. The snag for anyone in the States: the catalogue only opens in 4 Francophone European countries.
Try to load Tënk from a US connection and you get a polite region notice instead of a film. About ninety titles sit inside the Tënk membership at any time, with close to two thousand more available to rent individually. To reach that curated shelf you simply route your traffic through Surfshark, switch to a French server, and Tënk streams in 1080p as if you were in Lyon.
Tested weekly by our team. Green: works, amber: partial, red: blocked.
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Tënk works in 4 countries, including in France, in Belgium, in Luxembourg and in Switzerland. In 190 more it is blocked, and outside available regions you will need a VPN.
Tënk is blocked in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada and in New Zealand, plus in 185 more countries. To access it, use a premium VPN like Surfshark.
Tënk is the first streaming service devoted entirely to creative, auteur-driven documentary — from short films to feature-length work. Run by a cooperative based in Lussas, France, its subscription rotates around ninety hand-picked titles, backed by a far larger archive of films available to rent on demand.

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