Does it Hurt?

Does it Hurt?

Boli li? Prvata balkanska dogma Director Aneta Lesnikovska

1 hr. 40 min. · North Macedonia, 2007 · Documentary · Macedonian · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · N/A

About the film

This film is a fictional reality. Director Aneta Lesnikovska connects her and her friends' lives with fictional situations. Since most of her friends in Macedonia are actors and filmmakers who do everything except movies, she decides to give them hope, albeit a lie, to make a film. Aneta lies to her friends that she has found a producer who will finance her film, as long as they share her life stories with her ... "Does It Hurt?" Is not only the first Balkan film filmed according to Dogma's rules, but also a gift from the director On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Dogma movement. "In doing this project, it was important for me to use the Dogma style as an expression of creative freedom, combining reality and imagination. Here and now. Talk about the past, not tell it. No outdated Eastern European folklore. No obsession with geography and history. No self-pity. Only filmed the filmmaking process in a country where everything functions in a partisan style. Making a simple, sincere and naked film, ”says director Aneta Lesnikovska.

Details

Running time
1 hr. 40 min.
Country, year
North Macedonia, 2007
Genre
Documentary
Language
Macedonian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Age rating
N/A

Credits

Director
Aneta Lesnikovska
Screenplay
Aneta Lesnikovska
Cinematography
Lennert Hillege
Cast
Igor Dzambazov, Dejan Lilic, Toni Mihajlovski, Amernis Noksiki
More information
www.imdb.com

Festivals and awards

  • Rotterdam Internation Film Festival apdovanojimas ,,Tigras"
  • Bermudų tarptautinio kino festivalis Specialusis žiuri apdovanojimas už inovatyvų kiną
Aneta Lesnikovska

Director

Aneta Lesnikovska

Aneta Lesnikovska went to the Netherlands in 1992 and was admitted to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Faculty of Audiovisual Art in Amsterdam.