Kristen Stewart never questioned her ability to direct when it came to making her filmmaking debut "The Chronology of Water," but when she got to post-production, she thought she had "ruined the movie.

Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir about surviving childhood sexual abuse and finding an outlet for her pain in writing, the drama also features Thora Birch, Jim Belushi and Earl Cave.

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut “The Chronology of Water” premiered at Cannes Film Festival to a just over four-minute standing ovation on Friday night — and left many in the crowd wiping their eyes.