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 No outdated Eastern European folklore.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.
