Members of the Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) have selected the documentary feature I’m Not Everything I Want to Be by Klára Tasovská as the Czech Republic’s candidate for an Oscar in the International Feature Film category.
The Czech Film Centre writes how “the formally daring documentary about identity, freedom and inner defiance follows the life of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková – a distinctive artist who regardless of the times and her surroundings decided to be true to herself.”
Click here to read the Business Doc Europe interview with director Klára Tasovská.
The film was created out of Libuše’s private diaries and thousands of analogue photographs which depict the underground movement in the 1970s in Czechoslovakia, as well as her dramatic escape to West Berlin and later high fashion photographic work in Tokyo.
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be premiered at the Berlinale International Film Festival 2024 and has since travelled to more that 110 festivals and showcases all over the world, while securing distribution within several territories including Germany and Switzerland (Salzgeber), Portugal (No Comboio) and, as recently announced, the US (Grasshopper). The film was also awarded the Czech Lion for the Best Documentary Feature.
The shortlist of 15 international films will be announced on December 16 2025, and the announcement of the five nominated films in the International Feature Film category will follow on January 22 2026.
The 98th annual awards of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take place on March 15, 2026.
