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 O

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