Ještě nejsem, kým chci být / Klára Tasovská / Repubblica Ceca / 80’ / 2024

From the darkness come flashes of bright light followed by fragments of black-and-white images that appear in quick succession. An invita tion to a prestigious photography exhibition means that seventy-year-old Libuše Jarcovjáková has to turn on her photo scanner. She has been waiting for such an invitation for the last 50 years. All that time she’s been trying to be a recognized photographer, but no one really cared. Now she has to choose pho tographs that represent her and her work. But what should she show the world? Who is she, really?

Director Klára Tasovská
Idea Eva Dvořáková, Irina Minaříková
Screenplay Klára Tasovská, Alexander Kashcheev
Cinematography Libuše Jarcovjáková
Edited by Alexander Kashcheev
Music Oliver Torr, Prokop Korb (badfocus), Adam Matej
Sound Design Alexander Kashcheev, Michaela Patríková
Sound & Mix Michaela Patríková
Dramaturgy Viera Čákanyová, Eva Dvořáková
Producers Lukáš Kokeš, Klára Tasovská
Produced by Somatic Films
Co-Producers Jakub Viktorín, Ralph Wieser

Klára Tasovská
Klára Tasovská graduated from the New Media Department at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Documentary Film Department at FAMU in Prague. Her mid-length documentary essay Midnight (2010) was screened at several international film festivals (Ji.hlava IDFF – Special Jury Mention, Visions du Reél Nyon, EMAF Osnabrück – Newcomer Award, etc.). Her feature-length debut Fortress (2012), directed together with Lukáš Kokeš, was awarded Best Czech Documentary at Ji.hlava IDFF 2012. It also competed at CPH:DOX 2012 among other European festivals and was nominated for the LUX Prize 2013. Her last film Nothing Like Before (2017), co-directed by Lukáš Kokeš, premiered at IDFA’s First Appearance Competition 2017.