Kristen Stewart has picked up her first award as a director!
The 35-year-old actress and immediately 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.
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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, mami.”
“And I know that it was the subject matter and the form, but it’s because I was trying to make a movie about bleeding, and the digging and the climb that it takes to unearth a voice in a world masterfully designed to silence us — It took 8 f–king years,” she added.
The Chronology of Water “follows a woman (Imogen Poots) who emerges from an abusive childhood and channels her trauma into competitive swimming, sexual exploration, toxic relationships and addiction, before eventually discovering her voice as a writer.”
Earlier this year, Kristen debuted the movie at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Also at the Deauville American Film Festival, Kristen showed support to her longtime friend Zoey Deutch, who received the Hollywood Rising Star Award.
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