The plot of The Relatives revolves around a family’s journey to Grushinskii festival, the famous guitar music festival annually held outside Samara. The family of six has to let go of their immediate plans (ranging from a volleyball game to leaving for Canada) as they embark on a road-trip helping their middle-aged father realize his long-life dream of performing a song on the Grushinskii stage. While the premise of the film seems suspiciously familiar to the American classic Little Miss Sunshine (2006) following a family trip with a similar ambition, The Relatives is a profoundly local post-Soviet story uneasily hiding a generational drama under the guise of a road-movie comedy.
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