This hour we're featuring some of our favourite entries to the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge!

Including interviews with producers and a visit to our 2016 partner, Manual Cinema, who are adapting this year’s winning ShortDocs into a live shadow puppetry performance.

Maya Turns 26
by Maya Goldberg-Safir
Whether she likes it or not, things are about to change.

Out of Order
by La Cosa Preziosa
A man & his TV crime drama-induced phobia.

ragazzo incontra ragazzo
by Garrett Kling
A chance encounter brings together an American and Italian boy, not knowing when they'll ever meet again.

Too Many Miles *
by Stephanie Rowden & Jennifer Metsker
What if Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” were re-imagined as a film?

Swimmers
by Michelle Macklem
A woman pieces together sonic memories and her sense of belonging through swimming.

The Hadal Zone
by Peregrine Andrews & Geoff Marsh
Two obnoxious city boys take the Giant Squid Safari in the Sea of Japan and end up in deep trouble.

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