Does it Hurt? (2007)

Groepsportret van jongeren in Skopje (Macedonië) in een mengeling van fictie en realiteit. Lesnikovska wil dolgraag een film maken maar er is geen geld, daarom filmt ze de voorbereidingen van haar vrienden voor het maken van een film.

It is a simple and daring story of the life of young people on the Balkans, their dreams, hopes and disappointments in a land that is in a transition.

Ten years after the DOGMA-manifesto was signed by Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinter­berg, Aneta, a Macedonian filmmaker, lies to her friends that she got financial support from the Zentropa producers to make the first Balkan Dogma film. The documentary starts from the moment that Aneta asks her closest friends to join her in the quest for finding the right story for the film. She has decided to film the whole process. Throughout the whole film she is behind the camera . Fol­lowing the characters in their quest to find the best story for the dogma film we discover Macedonia and the Balkans anno 2006. The camera cap­tures visual sequences of the absurdity, humor and survival techniques of a land and people in transition. The making of project ultimately becomes the true subject of the film.