Stoyan Doychev

A day like any other dawns for a group of prisoners performing forced labor in a steel plant, but by the end of the day their lives will be forever altered.

»Rounds« takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, and follows three teams of police officers as they patrol the streets at night. The country is preparing to celebrate the historic 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that brought cataclysmic social and political change to the country. As the police officers travel through the city they find that even three decades later the country is still trying to find its footing and purpose. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)

Smart, angry, self-reliant Dida (15) will stop at nothing to achieve a single tangible goal – to buy a plane ticket so she can join her estranged mother in the United States.