THE CURRENTS

In THE CURRENTS, acclaimed Argentine-Swiss filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler invites us into the mystery of a woman suddenly, inexplicably, set adrift.

There is a moment early in the film when Lina, an Argentinian designer visiting Switzerland, stands at a window and looks out at a river — and something shifts. Not dramatically. Quietly. The way a life can change before you have even found the words for it.

Soon after, Lina survives a mysterious plunge into that icy river. She returns home to Buenos Aires a different woman: unable to explain what happened, and unwilling to pretend that nothing has changed.

What follows is not a conventional mystery, but an intimate psychological journey — dreamlike and quietly unsettling — about identity, memory, exile, and the parts of ourselves we try to leave behind.

Mumenthaler is one of the essential voices in contemporary Latin American cinema. Her films — Back to Stay, The Idea of a Lake, and now THE CURRENTS — share an uncommon quality: they trust silence. They trust the body. They trust the audience to feel before they understand.

Join us for a conversation with filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler about her haunting new film, THE CURRENTS, on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE, starting now.  

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.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler, The Currents is a quietly gripping psychological mystery with dreamlike, hallucinatory threads that weave a portrait of a woman on the verge of unraveling.