The Currents
July 12, 2026
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. The Currents is a quietly gripping psychological mystery with dreamlike, hallucinatory threads that weave a portrait of a woman on the verge of unraveling.
After accepting an award in Switzerland, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is overcome by a troubling sudden impulse. Back home in Buenos Aires, she says nothing about it, but something in her has shifted - quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.
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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 and returns to Buenos Aires; she tells no one of the incident, yet a transformation has taken place within her. Left with a paralyzing fear of water, Lina finds it impossible to readjust to her former identity as a wife, mother, and artist. She distances herself from her husband (Esteban Bigliardi) and career, growing increasingly isolated and fragile as she confronts long-buried existential questions.
Critic’s Pick! “Superb, sensuously realized… Its bravura filmmaking is all in the service of letting us travel alongside Lina as she feels her way to self-understanding.” — Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times
“A lush, hypnotic character study… a work of impressive, at times thrilling, assurance from start to finish. The elegance and, especially, empathy with which Mumenthaler captures the gaping chasm between how we present and who we are give the film a voluptuous pull all its own.” — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter
- Director: Milagros Mumenthaler
- Principal Cast: Isabel Aimé González Sola, Esteban Bigliardi, Claudia Sánchez, Ernestina Gatti, Jazmín Carballo
- Country: Argentina
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 104 min.
- Language: Spanish with English subtitles
- Has Subtitles: Yes