The Next 20 Festivals
- Chania Film Festival Edu, Chania, Crete
- Mon Premier Festival, Paris
- Children's Film Academy: Cinemira – Budapest International Children’s Film Festival, Budapest
- Molodist Film Festival, Kyiv
- KinderFilmFest Münster, Münster
- DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig
- Filem'On – Brussels Children's Film Festival, Brussels & Ghent
- KINEKO International Film Festival, Tokyo
- Discovery – Scotland's International Film Festival for Young Audiences, Dundee
- Doxs! - Documentaries for Children and Young People / Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg
- Festival Augenblick, Strasbourg
- FilmFestival Cottbus (Festival des Osteuropäischen Films), Cottbus
- BKFF - Bucharest Kids Film Festival, Bucharest
- JuniorFest - International Festival for Children and Youth, Plzen, Dobrany, Horsovsky Tyn, Prestice, Domazlice, Czech Republic
- Nordic Filmdays Luebeck/ Section Films for Children & Young People, Luebeck
- International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim & Heidelberg
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Children and Youth Film Festival Just Film, Tallinn
- Cinanima – International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Espinho
- Sevilla International Film Festival, Sevilla
Chania Film Festival Edu
Chania, Crete, Greece
21/10/2026 - 31/10/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Rhythm: annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): Oct./Nov. 2027
Competitive Children's Film Section
Director/s: Frantzeksakis, Mattheos
Deadline for film entries: 31/05/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Programs: Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Animations
Festival's recognition: regional
Media coverage: regional
Notes/description: Chania Film Festival (CFF) is an international film festival starting in Chania, in the region of Crete. An organization that quickly became an institution with international collaborations, with involvement and presence of creators, with many parallel events, with recognition and acceptance.
A cinematic institution that aspires to host what’s best in the world of cinema, both in Greece and abroad. A creative institution that interposes and is mainly concerned. A meeting place for fiction films, documentaries animation films.
A celebration of the 7th art.
There is a special section for documentary podcasts.
This festival is a member of 
Contact:
Chania Film Festival Edu, Cultural Society of Crete
PO Box 3 / Dimokratias & Hali Vamvakopoulos
73135 Chania, Crete
Greece
Phone: ++30-69706511530651153
Fax: ++30-2821036364
Internet: chaniafilmfestival.com/en/cff-edu/