Kristen Stewart presented her directing debut, The Chronology of Water, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir and led by Imogen Poots, at its UK premiere in Mayfair.
Kristen Stewart, an Academy Award nominee for Spencer, brought her directing debut, The Chronology of Water, to Curzon Mayfair for its UK premiere on Thursday 16 October 2025. Imogen Poots, who leads the film, joined her.
Stewart was born in Los Angeles in 1990 to a stage manager father and a script supervisor mother. Her breakthrough came at twelve in David Fincher’s Panic Room, and Into the Wild followed before the five Twilight films from 2008.
She then turned to independent work in Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper and Love Lies Bleeding.
The film adapts Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of a girl who escapes a violent, alcoholic household through competitive swimming, then through writing. Poots plays Yuknavitch, with Thora Birch, Tom Sturridge, Kim Gordon, Earl Cave and Jim Belushi around her.
The film had opened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in May, and the London screening was part of the BFI London Film Festival. BFI Distribution brought it to British and Irish cinemas on 6 February 2026.