Kristen Stewart Makes Her Directorial Debut in The Chronology of Water, Watch First Trailer

The first trailer for The Chronology of Water has been released.

The Chronology of Water is a forthcoming biographical romantic drama movie based on the 2011 autobiographical book of the same name by Lidia Yuknavitch. The movie is being helmed by Kristen Stewart in her feature film directorial debut.

Check out The Chronology of Water trailer below (watch more trailers and clips):

What happens in The Chronology of Water trailer?

The Chronology of Water trailer sees Imogen Poots (Hedda, Black Christmas) playing Yuknavitch, a professional swimmer who is on a journey of self-exploration after escaping a difficult past.

A description of the book further reads, “This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.”

The cast of the movie also includes Thora Birch as Claudia, Susannah Flood as Dorothy, Tom Sturridge as Kevin, and Jim Belushi as Ken Kesey.

The Chronology of Water held its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this past May, where it received positive reviews from critics. It currently has a 94 Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes with 34 reviews.

While this is Stewart’s first time helming a feature film, she’s made a handful of short films — 2017’s Come Swim and 2023’s Boygenius: The Film — before. She’s additionally directed music videos for Chvrches and Sage + The Saints, while she also created one of the shorts in the Homemade miniseries, which was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, that was released on Netflix in 2021.

Source: Comingsoon.net