Kino Lorber announces the U.S. theatrical release of The Currents (Las corrientes), the third feature film from acclaimed Argentine-Swiss filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler (Back to Stay, The Idea of a Lake). A standout selection at the Toronto, New York, and San Sebastian film festivals, the film opens May 29 at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City, followed by the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles on June 5, before expanding to select theaters nationwide.
In The Currents, Mumenthaler explores the fragile boundaries of identity and latent trauma. While in Switzerland to accept a fashion industry award, Argentine designer Lina (played with remarkable precision by Isabel Aimé González Sola) is seized by a sudden, inexplicable urge to plunge into an icy river. Though she survives and returns to her life in Buenos Aires, she is forever altered.
Haunted by a newfound, paralyzing fear of water, Lina begins to drift away from her husband (Esteban Bigliardi, Society of the Snow) and her career, retreating into an increasingly isolated existence as she confronts long-buried existential questions.
With The Currents, Mumenthaler continues her rigorous exploration of memory and the unspoken. By eschewing traditional narrative beats for a more tactile, immersive approach, she captures the internal collapse of a woman with startling intimacy, further establishing herself as a vital architect of contemporary Argentine cinema.
Throughout the film, she employs a sensory and deeply internal visual language to chart the psychological distance between Lina’s public persona and her private unraveling. Prioritizing atmosphere and existential tension over conventional narrative mechanics, Mumenthaler crafts an evocative study of displacement and emotional fracture that lingers long after the final frame. Masterfully weaving dreamlike, hallucinatory threads into a quietly gripping narrative, Mumenthaler solidifies her status as one of contemporary Latin American cinema’s most rigorous stylists.
