The Rumo team interviewed Pierre Mathéus, CEO of Tënk, and Samuel Gantier, University Researcher. They are collaborating on a project for the design of an algorithmic recommendation of documentary films. This research program relies on the Tënk platform, Spideo, and a research/industry consortium composed of the DeVisu laboratory of the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, the GERiiCO laboratory of the University of Lille. Tënk is a one-of-a-kind SVOD platform, focused on a niche market: the art-house documentary. As Pierre Mathéus explains, “We curate documentary films where the form is as important as the content. We can differentiate them from reports, which are very impartial and informative. On the contrary, creative documentaries own up to their own subjectivity”. The project’s goal? Testing a scientific method to evaluate the quality and relevance of an automated recommendation system based on a taxonomy specifically created for documentary films. The training ground? Tënk’s catalogue of documentary films. The tools? Rumo, the recommendation system developed by Spideo for cultural and creative content platforms.