Does It Hurt? - The First Balkan Dogma
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Cast & Crew
Aneta Lesnikovska
Irena Ristik
Igor Dzambazov
Dejan Lilic
Visar Vishka
Igor Andreevski
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The director translates her own life and that of her friends to a fictional situation. Most of her friends are actors and filmmakers who do everything but act and make films. There is no money, no fund that makes filmmaking possible in a country like Macedonia, so she sets to work according to the rules of Dogma. Not just to help her friends find some work, but also to fulfill her own desire: to make her first full-length film. She lies to her friends that she has found foreign producers who are willing to finance the film. They have to wait for the Danish producers, who never come. In the meantime, she keeps researching and asks all her friends to tell their life stories. The whole process is filmed and what was once intended as preparation turns into the film itself.
Director
Aneta Lesnikovska
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Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Tiger Awards Competition) January 24-February 4, 2007.
