Kristen Stewart has picked up her first award as a director!

The 35-year-old actress and now filmmaker’s new movie The Chronology of Water won the Revelation Award on Saturday (September 13) at the 2025 Deauville American Film Festival in Deauville, France.

While accepting the award, Kristen shared it took eight years to make this movie, which is based on the memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch .

“It was enough for me to even be allowed to make this movie,” Kristen said, via Variety . “I understand it’s a common story for first filmmakers to have it feel impossible, but the uphill battle on this one felt so personal and not for me, Kristen , but for me, girl.”

“And I know that it was the subject matter and the form, but it’s because I was trying to make a movie about bleedin

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