Online screening + discussion: 66 Seasons

KineDok continues its online season! From November 6 to 11, 2025, you can watch the Slovak-Czech documentary film 66 Seasons by Peter Kerekes – a unique chronicle of life and history seen through the lens of a single swimming pool in Košice over 66 years. The film will be available online for free during this period.

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VOD

03.11.2025

If you are interested in watching the documentary for free, please contact us at films@kinedok.net and we will send you a voucher. The film will be available here on kinedok.net in all partner countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia and Hungary).

66 Seasons (Peter Kerekes, 2003, Slovakia, Czech Republic, 80 mins)

As is typical for Petr Kerekes, he works with testimonies of witnesses, which he confronts with the real location — in this case, a public swimming pool shared by all the interviewees both in their memories and in the present. The life and significance of one swimming pool in the film are shaped by the lives of the people who move here every summer, and conversely, this time the swimming pool gives shape to their stories about life. The environment is active, complex in thought and memory — all those who have ever spent their free time here are reflected in the current visitors, while visual metaphors related to the pool allow memories and spiritual reflections to be materialized. The pool thus becomes a symbol of the cycle of life and death, of creation, existence, and disappearance, of arrival and departure, of endless transformation and flow.

DISCUSSION: 10. 11., 7 PM (GMT+1)

On Monday, November 10, an international discussion (in English) will be held at 7 PM (GMT+1) on KineDok's International Facebook page & our YouTube channel (@InstituteOfDocumentaryFilm7825). The guests will be Peter Kerekes (director of the film) and Linda Dombrovszky (Hungarian director and producer).

Peter Kerekes (1973, Košice) is a film director, producer and teacher. He directed and produced Wishing on a Star (2024), 107 Mothers (2021), Velvet Terrorists (2013), Cooking History (2009) and 66 Seasons (2003). Additionally, he produced the omnibus documentary Occupation 1968 and co-produced the films Stepne (2023) by Maryna Vroda, Fragile Memory (2022) by Ihor Ivanko, Caught in the Net (2020) by Vít Klusák and Barbara Chalupová, and The Wind. A Documentary Thriller (2019) by Michał Bielawski. Peter Kerekes is currently teaching at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and at the DocNomads Joint Masters in Budapest.

Linda Dombrovszky studied and graduated at the Media and Film Faculty at Pázmány Peter Catholic University and as a director at the Faculty of Film and TV at the Academy of Drama and Film in Hungary. Linda’s first short documentary Duty (2011) took part in the panorama selection of Cannes Critic’s week. Her next documentary, Once Upon a Time There Were Two Ballerinas (2016), has just started its festival career at Brussels International Short Film Festival and won the audience award at Interfilm IFF Berlin. She directed the Hungarian part of the omnibus documentary Occupation 1968, produced by Peter Kerekes. Linda’s first fiction TV-film Pilate was part of the Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Series in 2021.

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