The Currents Las Corrientes
Synopsis
Lina, an accomplished Argentinian designer and artist, walks alone around the wintery Swiss town where she has just received an award. In a sudden and dangerous impulse, she plunges from a bridge into the icy river, emerging unhurt but shaken. Back in Buenos Aires, she is confronted with a crippling phobia of water, yet she feels unable to admit to her loving husband and young daughter what she is going through. Estranged from the world she has built for herself, she begins to reach out to reconnect with a painful and distant past life that she had hoped to forever leave behind.
Milagros Mumenthaler crafts an intimate, emotional portrait of a woman coming undone—one that approaches trauma with profound empathy and paints Lina’s surreal interiority with the full breadth of its complexity. A haunting, lyrical meditation on identity, belonging, and motherhood, The Currents journeys through memory with delicate grace.
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- Alina Film, Ruda Cine
- Milagros Mumenthaler
- Gion-Reto Killias
- Gabriel Sandru
- Isabel Aimé González Sola, Esteban Bigliardi
- Alina Film, Ruda Cine
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Dry Leaf
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Lisa, a photographer, goes missing while on assignment to photograph rural soccer fields in Georgia. Troubled by her disappearance, her father Irakli embarks on a journey across the country’s vast and varied landscape in hopes of finding her. He’s accompanied by Lisa’s invisible best friend, Levani, and together the two travel from town to town searching for clues.
Shot entirely on an outdated cellphone (an ancient Sony Ericsson, to be precise), Dry Leaf is a radical reimagining of the “road movie” genre. Stunning Georgian scenery—from majestic mountains to idyllic sundrenched farms—is rendered in blurred, pixelated images that challenge our ideas about natural beauty in cinema. Backgrounded by an atmospheric, elegiac score and featuring a subtle, Kiarostami-like wit, the film is a moving, transcendent meditation on family, country, and life on the road written in a cinematic language all its own.
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- Mariam Shatberashvili, Luise Hauschild, Alexandre Koberidze
- Alexandre Koberidze
- Alexandre Koberidze
- Alexandre Koberidze
- David Koberidze, Otar Nijaradze
- Giorgi Koberidze
- New Matter Films
- https://cinemaguild.com
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Emi
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Emi, 18, is starting to spread his wings, asserting his independence by spending more time away from home. He finds freedom in his first job at a motorcycle repair shop where he works under the tutelage of the gruff but patient Rodolfo. To his parents, he might seem increasingly aimless as he spends more and more time hanging around the garage, drifting around Buenos Aires on his motorcycle, and stealing away with his boyfriend, but Emi is led by a secret curiosity. Guided by a faint memory, he becomes increasingly focused on puzzling out the story of the biological parents who gave him up for adoption at birth.
The many definitions of family are at the heart of this unique and deeply nuanced adoption story, centered around an empathic young man with a penchant for fostering connection and honesty among those he meets. Within a complex web of characters and relationships formed by bonds beyond blood, Emi carves a space for himself in the world.
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- Laura Mara Tablón, Coproducer: Federico Cetta
- Ezequiel Erriquez Mena
- Ezequiel Erriquez Mena, Pablo Riera
- Gustavo Schiaffino
- Benicio Mutti Spinetta, Mara Bestelli, Luis Ziembrowski, Sofía Palomino, Alejandro Scaravelli, Miriam Odorico
- Luciano Supervielle
- Laura Mara Tablón
- Rita Cine in coproduction with El Cielo Cine
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The Eyes of Ghana
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An inspirational chronicle of reclamation and renewal, The Eyes of Ghana follows Chris Hesse, a film pioneer in Ghana who documented the entirety of pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah’s run, win, and work as the young nation’s first President. Hesse, now in his nineties, is on a new quest to restore never-before-seen footage of Nkrumah’s endeavors—which were thought to have been destroyed—and recover a history of post-colonial struggle that has long been suppressed.
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot (A Concerto is a Conversation), executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, and featuring an original score by much-lauded composer Kris Bowers (The Color Purple), the film follows Hesse and his young ally, director Anita Afonu, as they work together to preserve the cultural richness, societal complexities, and everyday resilience of the Ghanaian people through their own lens. The Eyes of Ghana poses provocative questions about how history shapes the present and who gets to tell a country’s story.
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- Nana Adwoa Frimpong, Ben Proudfoot, Moses Bwayo, Anita Afonu, Brandon Somerhalder, Ethan Lewis, Vinnie Malhotra
- Mónica Salazar
- Brandon Somerhalder
- Chris Hesse, Anita Afonu, Edmund Addo
- Kris Bowers
- Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, John Akomfrah, Dan & Lian Gill, Max Johnson, Jonathan E. Lim, Michael Risley, Josh Rosenberg, David Treatman, Esther Wojcicki
- Breakwater Studios
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The Holy Boy La Valle dei Sorrisi
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Disruptions to the idyllic lives of the people in Remis, also known as the happiest town in Italy, are rare. But when Sergio, a former Judo champion with a tragic past, arrives to take over the school’s physical education program, his palpable pain puts him at odds with the town’s otherwise supernaturally cheerful inhabitants. Soon, he is initiated into Remis’s best-kept secret: once a week, the townspeople gather in a church to meet Matteo, a fifteen-year-old with some secrets of his own. His embrace promises to free its recipient of all their suffering, but this healing touch comes with consequences. Being the town’s savior is soul-crushing work and leaves little room for Matteo to live a life of his own or explore his blossoming queer desires. As the pressures on Matteo mount, Sergio searches for answers about this so-called angel, and the darkness inside his gift comes into disturbingly detailed focus.
Director Paolo Strippoli elegantly weaves a tapestry of contrasts and moral ambiguities that are mirrored in the film’s striking cinematography and production design. The Holy Boy thoughtfully contemplates the place of pain in our lives, matching its melancholic beauty with more than enough spine-chilling spectacle.
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- Domenico Procacci, Laura Paolucci, Ines Vasilevic, Stefano Sardo
- Jacopo Del Giudice, Paolo Strippoli, Milo Tissone
- Federico Palmerini
- Cristiano Di Nicola
- Michele Riondino, Paolo Pierobon, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Sergio Romano, Anna Bellato, Sandra Toffolatti, Roberto Citran, Giulio Feltri
- Fandango, Vision Distribution, Nightswim
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