The Currents
Milagros Mumenthaler · 2025 · 104 minutes
June 24, 2026 · Regal Riviera · 7:00 p.m.
While visiting Switzerland to accept an award for her work in the fashion industry, Argentinian designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) is seized by the sudden urge to jump off a bridge into an icy river. She survives the plunge, returns to Buenos Aires, and tells no one, but a transformation has taken place within her. Left with a paralyzing fear of water, she finds it impossible to re-adjust to her former identity as wife, mother, and artist.
The Currents premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by the San Sebastián International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter praised the film’s “elegance and empathy” in capturing “the gaping chasm between how we present and who we are.”
Writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler was born in Argentina in 1977 and studied film in Buenos Aires; her debut feature Back to Staywon the Golden Leopard at Locarno.
“A transfixing existential mystery.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“A complicated portrait of a woman on the edge of a breakdown—or is it a breakthrough?” – RogerEbert.com
“Arrestingly styled… an entry in cinema’s rich tradition of deconstructed feminine portraiture that skids ambitiously along a tonal and stylistic spectrum between Hitchcock’s Marnie and Todd Haynes’s Safe.” – Variety