EXCLUSIVE: Grasshopper Film has acquired U.S. rights to I’m Not Everything I Want To Be , the award-winning documentary about Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková that’s contending for Oscars in multiple categories.

Klára Tasovská ’s film won two awards at the Czech Lions (the Czech Republic’s equivalent of the Academy Awards), including Best Documentary and Best Editing. It also won major prizes at the Torino Film Festival in Italy and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montréal, among other awards. The film is made entirely from photographs by Jarcovjáková, an extraordinary artist who began her career in Czechoslovakia’s Communist era, often focusing on minorities and marginalized group’s including the LGBTQ community.

We have your first look at the film in the trailer above.

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