The newsreel tells about the 8th International Film Festival "Cinema for Children" in Samara. Samara city. Boys and girls at the entrance to the Khudozhestvenny cinema are calling their favorite films (sinhr.). Performances of a brass band, children's choreographic groups in the park on the opening day of the festival. Children ride a carousel. Mickey Mouse life-size puppet among children. A group of schoolchildren - participants of the film festival with badges in the park. Girls and boys in Russian folk costumes pose for the camera. The building of the hotel "Russia" and the restaurant complex. Film actor, President of the Guild of Filmmakers of Ukraine B.V. Savchenko in the lobby of the hotel gives an interview, in which he talks about the importance of the festival of children's cinema (sinhr.). Brass band, concert participants, schoolchildren walk along the park alley, along the city street. Directors, actors, film critics and other participants from Moscow, Ukraine, Belarus, Bashkiria, Tatarstan pass along the street. The musician plays the trumpet. Children enter the Khudozhestvenny cinema. Schoolchildren in the cinema hall. Opening of the festival in the cinema: one of the leaders of the festival speaks, a schoolgirl cuts the ribbon. On the screen there are credits and stills from the film "Minin and Pozharsky", 1939. People walk past a building with peeling paint and graffiti on the walls. Building with a sign: "Express Restaurant". The building of the cinema "Russia". Participant of the festival, film director-animator, artist, producer M.V. Aldashev in the lobby gives an interview in which he talks about the importance of children's cinema (sinhr.). Meeting M.V. Aldasheva with schoolchildren in the cinema hall. Fragments from cartoons by M.V. Aldasheva. Exhibition of children's drawings in the exhibition hall of the Samara House of Cinema. Visitors in the exhibition hall. Drawings "Butterfly", "Bee" and others. BI Savchenko talks about the difference between film and television (sinhr.). Festival participants, children in the cinema; children are applauding. Girls swing on a swing in the park. The boy goes down the steps of the wooden slide. Schoolgirls at the stadium in a physical education lesson. The boy rides a bicycle along the park alley.