The premiere of Klára Tasovská’s film about photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková will be shown at the Berlinale.
Czech documentary filmmaker Klára Tasovská will present the world premiere of I’m not Everything I Want to Be, which she made about photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, at the Berlinale in February. It describes how, after the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková tries to break free from the grip of the repressive Czechoslovak regime and embarks on a long journey to freedom.
At the end of the normalisation period, the artist moved to West Berlin, where she worked as a maid and in her photographs captured the events in a Prague gay club, the Vietnamese community in Czechoslovakia and other peripheral topics.
Her work has received wide recognition only in the last decade. But she was only “discovered” in the last decade. The Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic named her the Czech Photography Personality of the Year 2017 and in 2019 she was part of the International Festival of Photography in Arles, France. In addition to her success at the festival itself, her work has been highlighted in international media such as the Guardian, France’s Le Monde and the New York Times. In 2022, she was also nominated for Photographer of the Year at the Czech Grand Design Awards.
The festival will take place from 15 to 25 February.