Klára Tasovská’s I’m Not Everything I Want to Be has been selected at Czech Republic‘s entry for the International Feature Film Oscar.
Following a vote, the Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) made the choice for the doc feature, which premiered last year at the Berlin Film Festival and this year won a Czech Lion award.
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be explores identity, freedom and inner defiance through the life of photographer and artists Libuše Jarcovjáková.
The film was created from her private diaries and thousands of analog photographs, depicting the underground movement in 1980s in Czechoslovakia as well as Jarcovjáková’s dramatic escape to West Berlin and an exclusive photo shoot in Tokyo.
Last year, Czech Republic picked Jiří Mádl’s Waves for the International Oscar, and it went on to be shortlisted. Two Czechoslovak films – Ján Kádár and Elmar Klos’s The Shop on Main Street in 1965 and Jiří Menzel’s Closely Watched Trains in 1967 – and one Czech feature – Jan Svěrák’s 1996 entry Kolya – have won the award.
The selection came after a rule change for the candidacy selection, with voting taking place over two rounds. Initially, a CFTA committee chose three films – Broken Voices, Caravan and I’m Not Everything I Want to Be – that were submitted by producers. A second round including all CFTA members then followed in the month between July 8-August 8, with 194 academics picking in total.
The 98th annual Oscar awards will take place on March 15, 2026. A shortlisted selection of 15 international films will be announced on December 16 before the nominees are unveiled on January 22, 2026.
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