I'm Not Everything I Want to Be / Ještě nejsem, kým chci být
directed by Klára Tasovská
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (Ještě nejsem, kým chci být) is a Czech documentary directed by Klára Tasovská. The movie looks back over the past fifty years of the life and career of Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková via a fascinating montage of several thousand of her photographs and her diary entries, which she reads out herself. Portraits, self-portraits, immortalised moments, the quest for truth lying deep within nameless fellow opponents of grim Normalisation, reflections of the transformation of body and soul, black-and-white images, emotion and life in flashes of brilliant light.
The movie was premiered in February 2024 at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2025, it was selected as the Czech entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.
“This film is as much a tribute to the artistic process and curiosities of a photographer as it is a revealing portrait of her existence, forming an unconventional but deeply moving coming-of-age story.”
91 min / Color, Black & White
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Director Klára Tasovská / Screenplay Klára Tasovská, Alexander Kashcheev / Dir. of Photography Libuše Jarcovjáková / Music Oliver Torr, Prokop Korb, Adam Matej / Sound Alexander Kashcheev, Michaela Patríková / Editor Alexander Kashcheev / Producer Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská / Production Somatic Films / Coproduction nutprodukcia, Mischief Films, ARTE G.E.I.E., Česká televize / Cooperation untitled”” / Sales Square Eyes / Distributor Aerofilms