Another exceptional discovery from the 2024 Karlovy Vary Film Festival – the Czech documentary I’m Not Everything I Want To Be. This film originally premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier in the year, and also played at CPH:DOX, Docs Against Gravity, and IndieLisboa before finally heading to Czechia for its jubilant premiere in its home country at KVIFF. It’s a ravishing, intimate, affecting look at the life of one Czechoslovakian photographer named Libuše Jarcovjáková. If I must describe this film in one simple sentence to explain what it is: I’m Not Everything I Want To Be is an awe-inspiring photographic version of the classic story of how it takes an entire lifetime for an artist to finally be properly recognized. The doc is a look back at Libuše’s life, told entirely through her photographs with her words and her voice recalling every major moment that defined her – from her early days in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic under Soviet rule, to the Berlin Wall falling & collapse of the Soviet Union and finally freedom for her and everyone else. // Continue Reading ›
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