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.
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler) | Existential Mystery Film
Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents is an existential mystery that unfolds through atmospheric storytelling, exploring identity, perception, and the quiet tension beneath everyday life.
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- Updated: April 14, 2026
- By: Creators Faire Editorial
“Fascinating and intractable… 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.”
– Guy Lodge, Variety
“A transfixing existential mystery… Mumenthaler captures the gaping chasm between how we present and who we are.”
– Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter
“A complicated portrait of a woman on the edge of a breakdown—
or is it a breakthrough?”
– Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com
Directed and Written by: Milagros Mumenthaler
Starring: Isabel Aimé Gonzalez-Sola, Esteban Bigliardi, Claudia Sánchez, Ernestina Gatti, Jazmín Carballo, Patricia Mouzo, Susana Saulquin
Cinematography by: Gabriel Sandru
Edited by: Julia Straface
Produced by: Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney, Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero
Release details: THE CURRENTS opens May 29 in New York at Film at Lincoln Center and June 5 in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Royal, with expansion to follow.
