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The Currents

Directed by Milagros Mumenthaler
Argentina
2025
104 mins

Synopsis

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

Tickets

Wed 3 June 2026, 6:30pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2
Assisted ListeningWheelchair
Mon 8 June 2026, 4:45pm
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3
Assisted ListeningWheelchair
  • 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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