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A woman wearing bright red lipstick stands facing a mirror, her reflection staring back at her.

The Currents Las Corrientes

  Milagros Mumenthaler  |  Switzerland, Argentina

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.

 Spanish 

 104 minutes

Screenings & Events

There are currently no upcoming screenings of this film.

Media

Film Credits

  •   Alina Film, Ruda Cine
  •   Milagros Mumenthaler
  •   Gion-Reto Killias
  •   Gabriel Sandru
  •   Isabel Aimé González Sola, Esteban Bigliardi
  •   Alina Film, Ruda Cine

Sponsors

Program Patron

John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation

With support from

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