Screening times:
Thursday, August 13, 6:30 PM
Friday, August 28, 6:30 PM

Milagros Mumenthaler | Argentina | 2025 | 104 mins
Spanish with English subtitles

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 (Back to Stay), The Currents is a quietly gripping psychological mystery with dreamlike, hallucinatory threads that weave a portrait of a woman on the verge of unraveling.

“It’s most surprising quality is its generosity, its aversion to cheap shocks, button-pushing or finger-wagging. …Stirs your emotions, deploying bold colors, an immersive soundscape that mingles a spectrum of ambient noise with surges of classical music, and a lead performance of riveting translucency.” - John Frosch, Hollywood Reporter

“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

“The Currents willingness to suggest, rather than show, to create echoes rather than draw verbal conclusions is the film’s main source of power, along with Aimé González-Sola’s performance, a marvel of depth and opacity.” - Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com

Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available)