Klára Tasovská’s I’m Not Every part I Need to Be has been chosen at Czech Republic‘s entry for the Worldwide Function Movie Oscar.
Following a vote, the Czech Movie and Tv Academy (CFTA) made the selection for the doc function, which premiered final 12 months on the Berlin Movie Pageant and this 12 months gained a Czech Lion award.
I’m Not Every part I Need to Be explores id, freedom and internal defiance via the lifetime of photographer and artists Libuše Jarcovjáková.
The movie was created from her non-public diaries and hundreds of analog pictures, depicting the underground motion in Eighties Czechoslovakia in addition to Jarcovjáková’s dramatic escape to West Berlin and an unique photograph shoot in Tokyo.
Final 12 months, Czech Republic picked Jiří Mádl’s Waves for the Worldwide Oscar, and it went on to be shortlisted. Two Czechoslovak movies – Ján Kádár and Elmar Klos’s The Store on Predominant Avenue in 1965 and Jiří Menzel’s Carefully Watched Trains in 1967 – and one Czech function – Jan Svěrák’s 1996 entry Kolya – have gained the award.
The choice got here after a rule change for the candidacy choice, with voting going down over two rounds. Initially, a CFTA committee selected three movies – Damaged Voices, Caravan and I’m Not Every part I Need to Be – that have been submitted by producers. A second spherical together with all CFTA members then adopted within the month between July 8-August 8, with 194 teachers selecting in whole.
The 98th annual Oscar awards will happen on March 15, 2026. A shortlisted number of 15 worldwide movies will probably be introduced on December 16 earlier than the nominees are unveiled on January 22, 2026.
