Director
Kristen Stewart
Music (original)
Paris Hurley
Cast
Tom Sturridge, Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Earl Cave
Edition 2025
128'
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2025
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Drama, Biography, Romance, Youth / Coming-Of-Age
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
English
A young woman finds her voice in words and water. Kristen Stewart’s long‑awaited directorial debut is an intense dive into the life of the tormented artist from Lidia Yuknavitch’s poetic memoirs. From Olympic swimmer to a life marked by addiction and trauma, shot on 16 mm film and edited with dreamlike intensity, the film radiates as much pain as beauty.
Drowned in memory, reborn in words. In her long-awaited, daring directorial debut, acclaimed actress Kristen Stewart brings the raw, poetic memoirs of Lidia Yuknavitch to the screen. With Imogen Poots as Lidia, a former Olympic swimmer, the film traces a turbulent journey of escape from an abusive household into battles with addiction and self-doubt. Told in fragmentary chapters, it revisits her traumas, her search for solace in drugs, sexuality, and writing, and her eventual rebirth as an author, teacher, partner, and mother. Shot on 16mm and edited with dreamlike intensity, the imagery carries as much pain as it does beauty: water that threatens and redeems in equal measure. The film had its world premiere in Cannes 2025’s Un Certain Regard section, where it received thunderous applause for its hypnotic style and Poots’ powerhouse performance.
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Credits
Directors
Kristen Stewart
Music (original)
Paris Hurley
Cast
Tom Sturridge, Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Earl Cave
Scenario
Kristen Stewart, Andy Mingo
Director of Photography
Corey C. Waters
Editors
Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Producers
Rebecca Feuer, Charles Gillibert, Maggie McLean, Dylan Meyer, Andy Mingo, Michael A. Pruss, Svetlana Punte, Ridley Scott, Kristen Stewart, Yulia Zayceva
Production studios
Scott Free Productions, CG Cinéma, Forma Pro Films, NeverMind Productions, Fremantle, Curious Gremlin, Lorem Ipsum Corp., Scala Films
Distributor
O'Brother Distribution
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America, Latvia, France
Year
2025
Filmography
Kristen Stewart
Come Swim (short, 2017), Boygenius: The Film (short, 2023), The Chronology of Water (2025)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
