Kristen Stewarts talks her feature directorial debut 'The Chronology of Water,' which premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Stewart’s first steps as a director came eight years ago with the short “Come Swim,” which she also premiered in Cannes, in 2017. The festival, she says, generates the kind of questions she likes around movies. It was around then that Stewart began adapting Yuknavitch's memoir.

Adapting author Lidia Yuknavitch's 2011 memoir, the actor's directorial debut is one bruising, brilliant biopic.