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Release Does it Hurt? in The Netherlands
Does it Hurt? The First Balkan Dogma by Aneta Lesnikovska will be released in The Netherlands this November. For a change, a true film about a fictional event, instead of the other way round. Young Macedonian-Dutch filmmaker lies to her best friends and in this way makes the first Balkan (and Dutch) Dogma film. The film was in the Tiger Competition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam of 2007. Lesnikovska is currently developing her second feature film And One More Thing at the Script Development Programme at Binger Filmlab.In Does it Hurt? reality is based on fiction and vice versa. The director translates her own life and that of her friends to a fictional situation. Most of her friends are actors and film makers who do everything but act and make films. There is no money, no fund that makes film making 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 fulfil 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. The distinction between fiction and reality is impossible to define in the end.Does It Hurt? is the first Balkan film shot according to the rules of Dogma, made to mark the 10th anniversary of the Dogma manifesto. And maybe even more than a formal Dogma drama, Does It Hurt? is a personal, refreshing and amusing document about the film maker and her friends.
As from November 2nd (Dutch Premiere!), in Rialto Amsterdam.
www.rialtofilm.nl
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