Kino Lorber Acquires North American Rights to Milagros Mumenthaler’s Gripping Existential Drama 'The Currents'
“A lush, hypnotic character study…with an uncommon mix of stylistic rigor and feeling, it’s a work of impressive, at times thrilling, assurance from start to finish.”
– Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter
“An intimate portrait of a woman trying to reckon with her fractured identity, trying not
to fall into the grip of madness.”
– Jourdain Searles, The Film Stage
"Patient, intuitive, arrestingly styled…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
Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Milagros Mumenthaler’s absorbing psychological drama The Currents. The haunting and dreamlike third feature by writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler made its World Premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and has gone on to screen at San Sebastian, AFI Fest, Busan, and the New York Film Festival. The Currents will be released theatrically by Kino Lorber in 2026 followed by a digital, educational, and home video release.
While accepting an award for her fashion career in Switzerland, accomplished Argentine artist and designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) is seized by the urge to plunge herself into an icy winter lake without warning. Returning to Buenos Aires after surviving the fall, Lina decides to tell no one of the incident. Left with a paralyzing fear of water and a growing sense of isolation, she finds it impossible to readjust to her former life as a wife, mother, and artist, distancing herself from her husband (Esteban Bigliardi) and once thriving career. Something in her has shifted – quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.
The deal for The Currents was negotiated by Kino Lorber VP of Acquisitions Karoliina Dwyer and Luxbox Head of Sales Jennyfer Gautier.
“We're thrilled to bring Milagros Mumenthaler's assured third feature The Currents to North American audiences,” said Dwyer. “A fascinating, tense character study with stylistic nods to Hitchcock, the film is deliberately paced and nuanced, subtly exploring themes of fear, shame, and trauma. The combined power of Mumenthaler's exceptional filmmaking and Isabel Aimé González Sola’s impeccable performance is cinema we are proud to champion.”
“I am delighted that the film can be seen in the United States, the country of Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, Clint Eastwood, Kelly Reichardt, and the beloved Robert Kramer. Their visions of the world accompanied me through different stages of my education and my life,” said director Milagros Mumenthaler.
The Currents is an Alina Film, Ruda Cine production. The film is written and directed by Milagros Mumenthaler and produced by Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney, Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero.