Currents
Currents Program 6: Out of the Present
Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller, Ben Russell, Vika Kirchenbauer, Mara Chavez, doris duhennois
This program includes Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller’s They’re Here, Ben Russell’s Another Earth, Vika Kirchenbauer’s This Suffocating Now, and the world premiere of Mara Chavez and doris duhennois’s Morne Fortune.
- Runtime
- 64 min
- Country
- U.S./
France/ Germany/ Austria/ Saint Lucia/ Martinique/ U.K. - Language
- English,
Spanish, French - More information
- Official film page
Screenings
They’re Here
Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller, 2026, U.S., 25m
English and Spanish with English subtitles
New York Premiere
They’re Here. Courtesy of Tim Evans.
Opening with a cat and mouse car chase between ICE agents and neighborhood observers, They’re Here is a searing and dystopian dispatch from occupied Minneapolis. The film follows Edén Villa (pseudonym) and anonymous residents as they evade, resist, and surveil a masked paramilitary force abducting friends and neighbors. Using dashcam footage, crowdsourced data, and POV cinema, They’re Here takes the viewer inside the occupation of an American city.
Another Earth
Ben Russell, 2025, France, 11m
New York Premiere
Another Earth
An affective excavation of the present, Another Earth captures what it feels like to be both here and elsewhere: the fractured experience of a moment in which live-streamed genocide and lived reality clash in frenzied cacophony. Layers of time and embodiment converge in Ben Russell’s film, uncovering a buried alternative history of humanity.
This Suffocating Now
Vika Kirchenbauer, 2026, Germany, 15m
U.S. Premiere
This Suffocating Now. © Vika Kirchenbauer & VG Bild-Kunst.
This Suffocating Now examines the compromises and indignities of contemporary life in Germany via a series of vignettes: a basketball injury that results in a hospital stay, the silencing of inconvenient voices, unusual intimacies observed in the midst of protest and police aggression. Moving from the individual to the state to the various publics that emerge between them, Vika Kirchenbauer exposes undercurrents of contradiction and violence in public life and what now passes for normal.
Travel support generously provided by the German Film Office.
Morne Fortune
Mara Chavez, doris duhennois, 2026, Austria/Saint Lucia/Martinique/U.K., 13m
English and French with English subtitles
World Premiere
Morne Fortune
Atop Morne Fortune, on the Caribbean island of Iyanola (St. Lucia), an obelisk stands. Officially, it celebrates those who restored British dominion over the island in 1796. Yet it conceals another story: that of the Black freedom fighters, lost to the silence that followed the return of slavery. Challenging received histories, Mara Chavez and doris duhennois assemble testimonies on celluloid and digital scraps into an alternative monument.
They’re Here
Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller, 2026, U.S., 25m
English and Spanish with English subtitles
New York Premiere
They’re Here. Courtesy of Tim Evans.
Opening with a cat and mouse car chase between ICE agents and neighborhood observers, They’re Here is a searing and dystopian dispatch from occupied Minneapolis. The film follows Edén Villa (pseudonym) and anonymous residents as they evade, resist, and surveil a masked paramilitary force abducting friends and neighbors. Using dashcam footage, crowdsourced data, and POV cinema, They’re Here takes the viewer inside the occupation of an American city.
Another Earth
Ben Russell, 2025, France, 11m
New York Premiere
Another Earth
An affective excavation of the present, Another Earth captures what it feels like to be both here and elsewhere: the fractured experience of a moment in which live-streamed genocide and lived reality clash in frenzied cacophony. Layers of time and embodiment converge in Ben Russell’s film, uncovering a buried alternative history of humanity.
This Suffocating Now
Vika Kirchenbauer, 2026, Germany, 15m
U.S. Premiere
This Suffocating Now. © Vika Kirchenbauer & VG Bild-Kunst.
This Suffocating Now examines the compromises and indignities of contemporary life in Germany via a series of vignettes: a basketball injury that results in a hospital stay, the silencing of inconvenient voices, unusual intimacies observed in the midst of protest and police aggression. Moving from the individual to the state to the various publics that emerge between them, Vika Kirchenbauer exposes undercurrents of contradiction and violence in public life and what now passes for normal.
Travel support generously provided by the German Film Office.
Morne Fortune
Mara Chavez, doris duhennois, 2026, Austria/Saint Lucia/Martinique/U.K., 13m
English and French with English subtitles
World Premiere
Morne Fortune
Atop Morne Fortune, on the Caribbean island of Iyanola (St. Lucia), an obelisk stands. Officially, it celebrates those who restored British dominion over the island in 1796. Yet it conceals another story: that of the Black freedom fighters, lost to the silence that followed the return of slavery. Challenging received histories, Mara Chavez and doris duhennois assemble testimonies on celluloid and digital scraps into an alternative monument.