Locarno Golden Leopard Winner Milagros Mumenthaler Talks ‘The Currents,’ Visual Memory and First Male-Led Project

At ECAM Forum, the Argentine-Swiss director reflected on how houses, bodies, sound and color shape her films

By Emiliano de Pablos

Emiliano de Pablos

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Argentine-Swiss writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler is preparing a new project that will mark a notable shift in her filmography: for the first time, it will center on a young male protagonist.

Speaking to Variety on Thursday afternoon, June 11, after her ECAM Forum masterclass in Madrid, Mumenthaler said the film is still at a very early stage and has no working title. “The only thing I’m calling it now is ‘rom-drama,’” she said, describing it as a drama with a love-story element.

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