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.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler, The Currents is a quietly gripping psychological mystery with dreamlike, hallucinatory threads that weave a portrait of a woman on the verge of unraveling.

"If The Currents looks, at first, to be headed down a punishing path, its most surprising quality is its generosity, its aversion to cheap shocks, button-pushing or finger-wagging...That’s not to say this story of a woman whose flawless façade barely cracks even as her insides crumble doesn’t fray your nerves. (It does). But it also 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."—Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

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