The Currents

Directed by Milagros Mumenthaler

Argentina

2025

104 mins

Unclassified 15+

An icy plunge into a Swiss lake unravels something within an Argentine woman in this seductively stylish, existential mystery. Toronto and New York Film Festival 2025.

While in Switzerland to accept an award, fashion designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) is compelled to plunge, fully clothed, into freezing Lake Geneva. Returning home to Buenos Aires, she senses a profound interior transformation and feels suddenly distant from her daily life with her husband (Esteban Bigliardi, The Delinquents, SFF 2023), young daughter, and busy career. Cast adrift, she attempts to move forward. Earning comparisons to Lucrecia Martel and Todd Haynes, Swiss-Argentinian director Milagros Mumenthaler’s sophisticated third film is a work of great psychological depth and compelling style, powerfully evocative of Lina’s inner world while remaining firmly grounded in tangible reality.

“A lush, hypnotic character study … A work of impressive, at times thrilling, assurance from start to finish.”

Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter

“Impressively composed, searching high-art cinema, elevated by its meticulous, silkily textured formal construction.”

Guy Lodge, Variety

“Milagros Mumenthaler’s attention to metaphor and subjectivity invites comparison to Virginia Woolf’s formalist yet compassionate illumination of characters’ inner landscapes.”

William Repass, Slant Magazine

“A lush, hypnotic character study … A work of impressive, at times thrilling, assurance from start to finish.”

Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter

Tickets

Wed 3 June 2026, 6:30pm

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Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2

Mon 8 June 2026, 4:45pm

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Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3

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Program Strand
Europe! Voices of Women+ In Film
Original Title
LAS CORRIENTES
Year
2025
Classification
Unclassified 15+
Country
Switzerland, Argentina
Language
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director
Milagros Mumenthaler
Producer
Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney, Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero
Cast
Isabel Aimé Gonzalez-Sola, Esteban Bigliardi, Claudia Sánchez
Screenwriter
Milagros Mumenthaler
Cinematographer
Gabriel Sandru
Editor
Gion-Reto Killias
Genre
Women Directors, Women’s Stories, Central & South America
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Company Credits
Sales Agent: Luxbox

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