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Baltic Cinema: I’m Not Everything I Want To Be

Wed 11 Nov | 18:30-20:00
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After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young woman, Libuše Jarcovjáková, strives to break free and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences through thousands of subjective photographs.

Dir. Klára Tasovská Czechia/Slovakia/Austria 2024, 1hr 30mins

Black and white film still of two people kissing in a bar. One of them is holding a cigarette.

Baltic Cinema: I’m Not Everything I Want To Be (adv. 15)
Ještě nejsem, kým chci být

Wednesday 11 November | 18:30
£6 / £4.50* per person

Czech filmmaker Klára Tasovská’s debut feature is a formally inventive and deeply personal film. Made in close collaboration with Libuše Jarcovjáková and exclusively resorting to photographs and diary entries, I’m Not Everything I Want to Be explores the photographer’s search for identity and emotional journey, and results in a deeply affective and inspiring work. (ICA)

‘The struggle with obscurity, her refusal to give up, is one of the things that makes Jarcovjáková such a winning subject here’ —The Guardian

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Doors open 18:00; Film starts 18:30. Pop-up cinema bar open from 18:00 for drinks.

Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event.
*Concessions: under 18s, unwaged & 65+

Black and white photo of a young woman sat on a sofa in the street, surrounded by smoke and rubbish.

Shooting the Messenger

November 2026 – March 2027

Films on Photographers, Photographers on Film. What drives photographers to frame, to capture, to record? Sometimes compulsion, sometimes necessity, always curiosity.

Across five documentaries, this season looks at photography and photographers – their desires and struggles, passions and fears – to accompany Baltic’s current exhibition Tish Murtha & Kuba Ryniewicz: Close to Home.

The films propose photography as a lifetime’s quest and suggest that for many photographers – whether railing against the system, documenting their communities or pushing the boundaries of the medium – the more they take photographs, the more they know themselves.

Full film schedule coming soon…

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Baltic Cinema

Baltic Cinema is a year-round cinema programme at Baltic, lighting up our Level 1 Cinema with the best new and archive films. Bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East, Baltic Cinema also expands our exhibitions, offering a chance to explore further some of the themes they raise.

Baltic Cinema has five strands:

Currents presents new work from across the world

Sources expands on our exhibitions

Selected shows films selected by our artists and partners

Quayside Kino is a monthly screening for families and children

News From Home offers films on and from the North East, for the people who live here

All regular screenings take place in our Level 1 Cinema. 

Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.