Arsha Ovanesova

Filmmakers from the Central Studio of Documentary Films track down the children who starred in the Pioneeria documentary series a decade earlier.

A group of children gets into a dangerous adventure while trying to help the adults to supply water for the village. At any rate, they are courageous and won't give up.

A documentary about Arsha Ovanesova, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter who created the first Soviet newsreel series for chidren.

A film essay about the daily experiences of schoolchildren across the Soviet Union.

A documentary on the International Festival of Democratic Youth in Budapest.

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.