The Currents(2026)

Name: The Currents
Director: Milagros Mumenthaler
Genre: Drama
Released: May 29, 2026
Cast: Isabel Aimé González-Sola, Mauricio Bertorello, Sara Bessio, Esteban Bigliardi, Jazmín Carballo

Kino Lorber

1h 44m
- Drama

Release Date: May 29, 2026

During a business trip to Geneva, Lina's impulsive decision leads to perilous consequences. Back in Buenos Aires, she tries to bury her secret, but the dark past she left behind resurfaces to threaten her current life.

Release Details

Original Release | May 29, 2026 | Limited

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$8,020
Total US & Canada:
$44,990
Total International
$28,099
Total Worldwide:
$73,089

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Director & Top Cast

Milagros Mumenthaler
Director

Isabel Aimé González-Sola
Actor

Mauricio Bertorello
Actor

Sara Bessio
Actor

Esteban Bigliardi
Actor

Jazmín Carballo
Actor

Emma Fayo Duarte

Actor

Ernestina Gatti

Actor

Patricia Mouzo

Actor

Claudia Sánchez

Actor

Susana Saulquin

Actor

Other Details

Country of Origin: Argentina, Switzerland

Language: Spanish

Summaries

Storyline

During a business trip to Geneva, Lina's impulsive decision leads to perilous consequences. Back in Buenos Aires, she tries to bury her secret, but the dark past she left behind resurfaces to threaten her current life.

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Fun Facts

The opening is an 8-minute, virtually dialogue-free sequence. Lina accepts a fashion award in Switzerland, dumps the statuette in a restroom trash can, wanders the grey Geneva streets, and hurls herself off a bridge into a river — all without speaking a single word. The film doesn't show her rescue; we simply see her walk into her hotel lobby wrapped in a Mylar emergency blanket.

The cinematography deliberately channels Hitchcock's Vertigo. Director of photography Gabriel Sandru crafted shots that critics noted directly reference Robert Burks' famous photography for Hitchcock — using electric blues, verdant greens, and deep crimsons to externalize Lina's psychological fracture. The film even shares Vertigo's motif of a woman falling into water and losing her grip on reality.

There's a surreal lighthouse inexplicably perched atop an apartment building. In one of the film's most striking sequences, Lina and her daughter climb to a lighthouse that sits on the roof of their Buenos Aires apartment building. From there, a searchlight casts golden beams down onto the city, revealing glimpses of minor characters' private routines — a moment critics compared to the visual poetry of early F.W. Murnau and King Vidor.