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Madrid-based Sideral, an integrated production-distribution-sales label which debuted in 2023 at the Berlinale, has announced plans to produce and distribute “Los Relatos” a femicide drama by Miguel del Arco with Juan Diego Botto (“The Room Next Door”), Marta Etura (“Cell 211”) and Ainara Elejalde (Mr. No One”) leading the cast.

Sideral will handle both international sales and distribution in Spain.

Principal photography kicks off in September with Aquí y Allí Films also producing. Its release is targeted for late next year.

“Los Relatos” explores the lasting, painful repercussions of a femicide — even more than 20 years after the crime was committed. It follows Pablo (played by Botto), who returns to his hometown after serving time for the murder of his wife — the very place where it all happened. Only the audience can decide whether he deserves a second chance — ostensibly one his victim will never have.

Said del Arco: “Writing this script...

Exclusive: Global buyers are giving Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire Yes a thumbs up following the film’s world premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Losange Films, the international sales arm of Paris-based Les Films du Losange, has sold the film to Sister Distribution in Switzerland, Leopardo in Portugal, Weird Wave in Greece, Njuta Films for Scandinavia, McF for the former Yugoslavia, Bad Unicorn in Romania, Taip Toliau for Estonia and Lithuania, Impact Films in India, Pt Falcon in Indonesia, and Imovision in Brazil.

Kino Lorber has picked up for North America and is planning a theatrical release in...

Kristen Stewart has a new ‘do.

The 35-year-old Twilight actress was seen showing off her bright new hair color while walking her dog with wife Dylan Meyer on Sunday (July 27) at Griffith Park in Los Angeles.

The two looked casual for their daytime outing in matching green shorts, with one wearing a white graphic tee and the other in a grey tee and black cap, both sporting white sneakers.

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The couple said “I do” in front of family and friends during an intimate ceremony in LA towards the end of April.

A few weeks later, Kristen headed to Cannes, France, to attend the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where she premiered her new movie The Chronology of Water.

If you didn’t know, the couple is also working on a movie together. Kristen will star in The Wrongs Girls alongside Alia Shawkat, Seth Rogen and more,...

Esmé Creed-Miles has been cast as Marianne Dashwood in Focus Features’ film adaptation of the Jane Austen classic “Sense and Sensibility.”

She joins the previously announced Daisy Edgar-Jones, who will play Elinor Dashwood, Marianne’s older sister.

Focus Features announced the news in an Instagram post on Friday morning, with the caption, “The Marianne to our Elinor,” alongside a photo of Edgar-Jones and Creed-Miles’ scripts.

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In film, Creed-Miles has previously starred in “Silver Haze,” “The Thicket,” and, most recently, Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut “The Chronology of Water.” On television, her credits include “Hanna,” “The Legend of Vox Machina,” “The Doll Factory” and “The Sandman.”

“Sense and Sensibility” is being directed by BAFTA nominee Georgia Oakley, from a script by bestselling author Diana Reid. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films will produce alongside India Flint...

Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer are stepping out for lunch together!

The 35-year-old actress and the 37-year-old writer/director were seen dressed casually while making their way to Casa Leo on Saturday (July 5) in Los Angeles.

During the newlyweds’ outing over the weekend, Kristen and Dylan were seen wearing matching wedding rings, just a couple months after tying the knot.

The couple said “I do” in front of family and friends during an intimate ceremony in LA towards the end of April.

A few weeks later, Kristen headed to Cannes, France, to attend the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where she premiered her new movie The Chronology of Water.

She donned a pink sheer skirt for a photo call, followed by a white satin short suit for the premiere.

If you didn’t know, Kristen and Dylan are working on a movie together. Kristen will star in The Wrongs Girls alongside Alia Shawkat,...

Exclusive: Miramax in a competitive bid has snapped up the rights to Australian author Amy Taylor’s upcoming second novel Ruins with Oscar nominees Vanessa Kirby and Sebastian Stan attached to headline and produce. Scott Free, Linden Entertainment and Kirby’s Aluna Entertainment put this package together, I hear. Kirby will produce through Aluna.

Miramax’s new President of Film Group Alexandra Loewy shepherded the deal.

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Ruins follows a couple whose affair with a young Greek woman over the course of a summer in Athens threatens to crack their relationship open in a story about privilege and power, desire and intimacy. The Dial Press is publishing Ruins in the U.S. on Aug. 12 and Allen & Unwin will publish in Australia and New Zealand on July 1. There is currently an ongoing negotiation for UK publishing rights. Taylor’s first hit novel was Search History in 2023. The author is...

Hollywood Insider - What Happened After ‘Twilight’: Where the Saga’s Stars Are Today

With Robert Pattinson leading Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ and Kristen Stewart making her feature directorial debut with ‘The Chronology of Water’, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2025, the 'Twilight' cast have evolved far beyond the roles that made them famous. When ‘Twilight’ got its reboot on Netflix this spring, it brought us all back to the city of Forks. For a generation raised on Team Edward vs. Team Jacob, this was more than a rewatch—it was a rediscovery. But it's been 13 years since the release of ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2’ back in 2012. So what’s the cast up to now? Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more...

By the end of this year’s Cannes Film Festival — well, technically, up until this Memorial Day when Netflix announced the streamer snapped up Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” — 13 of the 22 films in competition had walked away with a stateside home.

That’s impressive, but there are still many more gems waiting out throughout the Official Selection, including even Harris Dickinson’s IndieWire-adored directorial debut “Urchin”. Kristen Stewart’s acclaimed Imogen Poots vehicle “The Chronology of Water,” one of three actor-turned-director efforts in Un Certain Regard along with Dickinson and Scarlett Johansson, doesn’t have a home yet, either. She’ll get there.

Surveying the Main Competition, either films like “Eddington” (A24) or “The Phoenician Scheme” (Focus Features) or “Sentimental Value” (Neon) came to the festival with deals in place, or a handful for stateside berth were brokered on the ground. Mubi took the buzziest buy of the festival...

Exclusive: Tim Rozon (Schitt’s Creek), Colton Gobbo (Ginny & Georgia), and Jim Belushi (According to Jim) are set to topline Karate Ghost, a new martial arts comedy from director James Mark that has just recently entered production in Toronto.

Set in a town ruled by absurd karate law, the film watches as a lonely teen forms an unlikely bond with the ghost of his late father’s favorite action hero. What begins as a haunted mentorship quickly escalates into a fight for identity, legacy, and redemption. Rozon leads the cast as Johnny Maim, a washed-up ’90s action star who died tragically mid-stunt now trapped in the afterlife and hungry for one last shot at glory, with Gobbo playing grieving 15-year-old Bobby Brody.

The film is the latest for mark on the heels of films including sci-fi actioner Fight Another Day, sci-fi thriller Control, sci-fi actioner Enhanced, actioner On the Ropes, and sci-fi actioner Kill Order.

Ioncinema.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Our Cannes coverage continues well beyond the festival dates.

Competition

Alpha – Julia Ducournau – [Review]

Dossier 137 – Dominik Moll – [Review]

Die, My Love – Lynne Ramsay – [Review]

Eagles of the Republic – Tarik Saleh – [Review]

Eddington – Ari Aster – [Review]

Fuori – Mario Martone – [Review]

The History of Sound – Oliver Hermanus – [Review]

It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi – [Review]

La Petite Dernière – Hafsia Herzi – [Review]

The Mastermind – Kelly Reichardt – [Review]

Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater – [Review]

The Phoenician Scheme – Wes Anderson – [Review]

Renoir – Chie Hayakawa – [Review]

Resurrection – Bi Gan – [Review]

Romería – Carla Simón – [Review]

The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho – [Review]

Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier – [Review]

Sirât – Óliver Laxe – [Review]

Sound of Falling – Mascha Schilinski – [Review]

Two Prosecutors – Sergei Loznitsa – [Review]

Woman and Child – Saeed Roustayi – [Review]

Jeunes mères – Dardennes – [Review]

Un Certain Regard

Aisha Can’t Fly Away – Morad Mostafa – [Review]

Caravan – Zuzana Kirchnerová – [Review]

The Chronology of Water...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident taking home the Palme d’Or (see all jury winners here). While our coverage will continue with a few more reviews this week––and far beyond as we provide updates on the journey of these selections––we’ve asked our contributors on the ground to share favorites.

See their picks below, and explore all of our coverage here.

Leonardo Goi (@LeonardoGoi)

1. Sirat (Oliver Laxe)

2. Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)

3. The Last One For The Road (Francesco Sossai)

4. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

5. Resurrection (Bi Gan)

6. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)

7. Heads or Tails (Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis)

8. Lucky Lu (Lloyd Lee Choi)

9. Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)

10. Mirrors No. 3 (Christian Petzold)

Read all of Leonardo’s reviews here.

Luke Hicks (@lou_hicks)

1. Sirat (Oliver Laxe...

Book adaptations yield two kinds of films: those that transliterate and those that translate. While the former insist on keeping the source material’s spirit at the cost of a rendition so faithful it comes to stage things rigidly, like a direct transplant from page to screen, the latter trust both mediums so completely, allowing for some poetic gap between book and film as if translating an idiom from one language to another. Adaptation can be a risky venture for seasoned filmmakers, let alone a newcomer. Even more so if you’re an A-list actress, whose directorial debut likely faces a great deal of scrutiny. In light of this, Kristen Stewart’s decision to adapt the 2011 memoir The Chronology of Water by American novelist Lidia Yuknavitch––who is probably better-known for her second book (and first published with a major press) The Small Backs of Children––suggests that the match...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival concludes today with the Closing Ceremony and presentation of the coveted award, the Palme d’Or, which was awarded to Jafar Panahi for the film It Was Just an Accident.

The Jury, chaired by director Juliette Binoche, was tasked with awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 21 films in the Competition. The jury included Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong.

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2025: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews

The Croisette has been a buzz so far with glamorous parties and red carpet fashion statements. Director Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour, opened the festival with other highlight premieres from this year’s slate including Paul Mescal in The History of Sound; Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest; A Private Life starring Jody Foster...

Yes, Cannes is still rolling. And no, the Palme d’Or winner has not been crowned (that’ll come later Saturday). Cannes has been going on for so long that “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” a film that screened early in the festival, is now playing on thousands of screens worldwide. But let’s get into the happenings before this year’s festival finally closes out.

Un Certain Regard Regarded

Everyone is always in a tizzy over what will get Cannes’ big award, the Palme d’Or, but just as interesting (perhaps more so) is the competition for the Un Certain Regard, which is run in parallel to the main competition. The goal of Un Certain Regard, which was introduced in 1998, is to give a spotlight to unusual films that take narrative or stylistic risks. And this year was no different.

This year’s top prize winner was “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,...

Ahead of the 2025 awards ceremony on Saturday, May 24, the festival has announced the winners for the Un Certain Regard section, with the top prize going to “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.” A co-production between Chile, France, Belgium, Spain, and Germany, the 1980s-set drama marks the feature directorial debut of Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes.

The Best Screenplay award for the Un Certain Regard section went to Harry Lighton for his feature directorial debut, A24’s “Pillion,” starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård. In his Critic’s Pick review out of Cannes, IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio said of the film, “Dick-sucking, boot-licking, and ball-gagging are de rigueur for a movie like writer/director Harry Lighton’s wildly graphic and strangely moving Bdsm romance, ‘Pillion.’ But for a British queer film that puts the particulars of a gay dominant-submissive affair up front and up close, actors Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling find...

Diego Céspedes’ “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” has been named the best film of the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, the Ucr jury announced on Friday.

The film follows an 11-year-old girl growing up in the early 1980s in a queer family in a small Chilean mining town, where suspicion is growing over a mysterious disease that is rumored to be spread by glances between gay men.

Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet” won the Jury Prize, the second-place award.

The directing award went to Tarzan and Arab Nasser for “Once Upon a Time in Gaza,” while Cléo Diara and Frank Dillane won the performance prizes for “I Only Rest in the Storm” and “Urchin,” respectively. Writer-director Harry Lighton won the screenplay award for “Pillion.”

Un Certain Regard focuses on films from younger directors and often spotlights experimental work. This year, Ucr was also the...

At IndieWire’s annual “Screen Talk” live podcast at the American Pavilion in Cannes, Neon CEO Tom Quinn returned to share his Oscar whisperer secrets after his victory lap on “Anora,” which won the Palme d’Or last year followed by five Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Editing, and Original Screenplay. Quinn is the talk of Cannes because, as anticipated, the movie he acquired at last year’s festival, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” starring Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve, is the frontrunner for the Palme.

While Quinn talked about the four films he brought to the festival (listen below), after our podcast, he acquired three Competition titles: Jafar Panahi’s family drama “It Was Just an Accident,” Brazil’s popular entry “The Secret Agent,” from Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Oliver Laxe’s tragic French-Spanish production “Sirât,” which polarized many Cannes watchers. Even if these four Neon titles don...

The Cannes Film Festival’s second-most prestigious competition, Un Certain Regard, is typically dominated by newer, less heralded names in world cinema. But there was more star power than usual at stake in this year’s awards ceremony, as pundits wondered whether one of the three debut features by prominent actors-turned-directors in this year’s lineup — Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson — could land a prize.

As it turned out, people needn’t have worried about a Hollywood takeover. Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water” and Johansson’s “Eleanor the Great” both went unawarded, as the jury threw a relative curveball in handing the Prix Un Certain Regard to Chilean director Diego Céspedes for his alluringly titled first feature “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” an offbeat study of a transgender commune living in the Chilean desert around the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

The film...

Cannes Film With Longest Standing Ovation (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

The 2025 edition of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France commenced on May 13, 2025, and will conclude on May 24, 2025. The star-studded fest showcased many eagerly anticipated films and world premieres. And some of them were greeted with standing ovations from the festival audience.

The list includes Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Denzel Washington’s Highest to Lowest, Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, The Secret Agent, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. Out of these, Sentimental Value received the longest standing ovation for an impressive nineteen minutes. (via Screenrant) But do you know which film holds the record for the longest standing ovation ever at Cannes? Read on to find out.

The Film That Got The Longest Standing Ovation At Cannes

The still unbeaten record for...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival has wrapped following days of star-studded premieres, red carpets and dealmaking on the French Riviera.

This year’s lineup included major Hollywood premieres including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera, Richard Linklater’s Paris-shot Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague, Jochim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau’s Alpha to name a few.

They were joined by new films from stalwart auteurs including horrormeister Ari Aster’s buzzy A24 feature Eddington, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind. Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson debuted in Un Certain Regard with her first directorial effort, Eleanor the Great.

Related: Standing Ovations At Cannes: How We Clock Those Claps, Which Movie Holds The Record and Why The Industry Loves To Hate The Ritual

Croisette regulars Kirill Serebrennikov, Raoul Peck and...

Miley Cyrus has been a mega-star for more than a decade but now the multihyphenate is adding another talent to her resume: director. Cyrus helms her pop opera feature “Something Beautiful,” making her directorial debut with the “one of a kind” cinematic experience that is “fueled by fantasy,” as the logline teases. Cyrus co-directs with Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter.

“Something Beautiful” will feature 13 original songs from Cyrus’ ninth studio album of the same name. The film is mixed by Alan Meyerson (“Dune Part One,” “The Dark Knight”) for a theatrical release. “Mandy” breakout filmmaker Panos Cosmatos produces along with Cyrus and XYZ Films, in collaboration with Sony Music Vision, Columbia Records, and Live Nation. Benoît Debie is the cinematographer.

“’Something Beautiful’ is my dream project come true — fashion, film, and original music coexisting in harmony,” Cyrus said in a press statement. “My co-creators are all geniuses in their own...

Kristen Stewart has been a constant presence at the Cannes Film Festival, promoting her projects while representing Chanel, the fashion house for which she’s been an ambassador since 2013.

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1. Soft Glamour: Chanel Pink Tweed Blazer & Sheer Skirt 2. Accessory Elegance: Diamond Choker & Nude Chanel Heels 3. White-Hot Style: Chanel Satin Suit & Sheer Shirt 4. Chanel Red Carpet Legacy: Kristen Stewart’s Most Iconic Looks

Kristen Stewart wearing Chanel at Cannes is nothing new, but it carries special significance this year. Marking her directorial debut with The Chronology of Water, Kristen cements her evolution from acclaimed actress to multifaceted filmmaker. Her growing influence in Hollywood now extends well beyond the screen.

Kristen Stewart wears Chanel in two striking looks at the Cannes Film Festival—sporting soft pink tweed and sheer layers for The Chronology of Water photocall, and a sharp white short suit with heels and socks for the Bono: Stories of Surrender...

The 77th Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 9 with two world premieres: Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, and director Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which reunites him with The Worst Person in the World actress Renate Reinsve.

Guests at the premiere for The History of Sound included Teri Hatcher, Taraji P. Henson, Aja Naomi King, John C. Reilly, Julian Assange, Michelle Rodriguez, Edward Enninful, Naomi Campbell, Jenny Slate

Related: ‘Eddington’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere Photos: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler & More

Mescal stars as Lionel, a gifted singer from rural Kentucky, who leaves his family farm in 1917 to attend the Boston Music Conservatory. There, he meets David (O’Connor), a charming music student soon drafted into the war. In 1920, the two spend the winter in Maine, passionately collecting folk songs. As Lionel builds a successful life in Europe, he...

Kristen Stewart is revealing the details behind her new tattoo.

The 35-year-old Twilight alum walked the red carpet for the premiere of The Chronology of Water at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Friday (May 16).

She wore an all-white Chanel suit, including a fitted white jacket, trouser shorts and a sheer white blouse with a tiny black tie – but it was her new leg tattoo that got all the attention.

The shorts showed off her new ink just above the knee, reading “Mine” in all capital letters.

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During an interview with Vulture, she revealed that the rest of the movie’s film crew will get a matching “Mine” tattoo and shared its Nsfw meaning.

“The coolest song in the movie is when she c—s on her hand, smells it, wipes it on her f—— bicep, and goes, ‘I didn’t know a girl body could do that.

Kristen Stewart might have entered the realm of fame as a teen icon with the Twilight franchise. However, since then she has charted a different course for herself, venturing into genres and projects few expected her to.

Now, Stewart has achieved another significant milestone: directing her first feature film, The Chronology of Water. A brutal film about what it means to be a woman, Stewart recently defended the brutality of the film in an interview at Cannes. As she earns rave reviews for her directorial debut we’re reminded of her admission that she’s made only five good films.

Kristen Stewart reckons she has made just five good movies Kristen Stewart | Credit: Happiest Season / Hulu

Kristen Stewart has starred in several movies, spread across genres. Following worldwide stardom with the Twilight franchise, the actress has deviated more towards independent films and projects. Although she has time and again returned to more mainstream cinema,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 8 with the world premieres of A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster, and Eleanor The Great, the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson, starring June Squibb in the titular role as part of the Un Certain Regard lineup. Other premieres today include It Was Just an Accident, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, and Fuori.

Related: ‘Eddington’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere Photos: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler & More

Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who, after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell. The cast also includes Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht and Rita Zohar.

The film A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 7 with the world premiere of Spike Lee’s Highest to Lowest, starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky; Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville starring Kyle Marvin, Adria Arjona, Dakota Johnson, and Alpha from director Julia Ducournau.

Guests who attended the premieres included Rihanna, Luke Wilson, Edward Norton, Jason Momoa, Wes Anderson, and many more.

Highest to Lowest follows a titan of the music industry (Washington), a man whose legendary hearing has earned him the moniker “the best ears in the business,” as he becomes the target of a high-stakes ransom plot. This perilous situation forces him into a life-or-death moral quandary.

Marking the fifth collaboration between Washington and Lee, the film reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s gripping crime thriller High and Low, transplanting its tense narrative to the gritty reality of contemporary New York City.

Related: ‘Eddington...

It’s hard these days to create an original film from scratch, tougher still to launch a first film in the Cannes Selection. Three actors have achieved that feat this year, all playing in Un Certain Regard, where the spotlight tends to be less harsh: Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor the Great,” starring American veteran June Squibb; Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water,” starring British actress Imogen Poots; and from the U.K., Harris Dickinson’s “Urchin,” which will propel Frank Dillane (son of British actor Stephen Dillane) into Best Actor Oscar contention if a distributor does right by it. All the key North American distributors attended the debut on Saturday after good word leaked out of early New York screenings. Yes, it played well.

“The applause was lovely,” said Dickinson, sitting with Dillane on the roof of the J.W. Marriott Hotel with stunning views of the Gulf of Napoule.

Politics continues to trump business at this year’s Cannes film festival, with little in the way of deals out of the Marché, but lots of activist agitation on the red carpet and beyond.

Cannes’ first weekend, traditionally the period when the bidding wars begin and the first big buys are announced, has been almost frighteningly quiet. There was a single big deal — Mubi’s $24 million multi-territory deal, including North America, the U.K., Latin America and other countries — for the Lynne Ramsay’s Jennifer Lawrence Robert Pattinson starrer Die, My Love. It was a major deal for a finished film but also threw into sharp relief the lack of major pre-sales at Cannes so far, despite a market featuring jam-packed with hot packages.

The cautious, wait-and-see approach from buyers — already in evidence in Sundance and Berlin — continues amid growing uncertainty over financing and distribution models and, let’s face it,...

Kristen Stewart hopes 'The Chronology of Water' can trigger a change within the movie business.The 35-year-old star has made her directorial debut with the new biographical drama film, and Kristen hopes that it will encourage more movie studios to explore female narratives.The Hollywood star said during a panel at Deadline's Cannes Film Festival studio: "We broke the seal. Hopefully we can start flooding, gushing into view."Kristen observed that, for too long, audiences have been presented with "prescribed stories".The actress-turned-director said: "We get prescribed stories just shoved into our faces, down our throats."Kristen is often frustrated with how women are portrayed on the big screen.She explained: "The imagery that we consume, the conversations that are not allowed, the fact that we can’t tell people when we’re bleeding, like it’s gross or something."'The Chronology of Water' is based...

There’s a beguiling dichotomy in Kristen Stewart’s accomplished first feature as writer-director — between the dreamlike haze and fragmentation of memory and the raw wound of trauma so vivid it will always be with you. Adapted from the influential 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water is challenging material, an unflinching account of childhood sexual abuse followed by years of vanishing — into addiction, sexual experimentation and self-destruction before the author found her voice by channeling her pain into writing.

Stewart also appears to have found her voice, announcing the seriousness of her intentions not with auteurist self-importance but with unimpeachable commitment to honoring her subject’s story.

That subject, Lidia, played by Imogen Poots in a daring high-wire act, represents not just herself and her fellow-survivor sister Claudia (Thora Birch) but countless women shamed into silence or damaged beyond repair by violations of their bodies. It’s a visceral,...

When you’re a film critic who sees film after film and reviews them over the course of a busy festival, there can be a tendency to leave yourself out of the picture in order to prioritize being more analytical and detached about what it is you’re seeing. There is no doing that with actor Harris Dickinson’s debut feature “Urchin.”

A drama about a man who goes from living on the streets of London to trying to start his life over again and break free from the stranglehold of addiction after a stint in prison, it’s the first film where the final moments made my breath catch in my throat as I began to tear up at Cannes this year. This is no small achievement. It’s the type of moment that serves as a testament to just how confidently written and directed it is as it...

Wes Anderson has yet again entertained Cannes.

This time, the auteur debuted his hotly-anticipated The Phoenician Scheme at the fest’s Lumière Theatre, arriving by bus — yes, bus — with stars Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera and Riz Ahmed on Sunday night.

Anderson was also joined by Jeffrey Wright, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Murray, Rupert Friend, co-writer Roman Coppola and composer Alexandre Desplat on the Palais steps ahead of the premiere.

Receptions at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, in particular for the competition titles, have generally been a little tepid. Anderson was the recipient of a polite six-minute ovation. Mia Threapleton was in tears, hugging Michael Cera during the ovation. After the applause calmed down, Anderson took a brief moment to thank his cast.

Before the movie screened, Anderson and his cast were in good spirits as they took to the Palais steps, waving the weekend farewell on the Croisette.

The Cannes Film Festival is nearing the end of its first week and with it, we got a buzzy new Jennifer Lawrence/Robert Pattinson drama and a Richard Linklater-directed ode to French cinema.

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison Hit the Red Carpet

“Die, My Love,” the long-awaited new film from Lynne Ramsay, premiered Saturday and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison were on hand to welcome it to the world.

The stars, who had each anchored their own beloved YA franchise long ago, attended the premiere alongside their director (this is the Scottish director’s first feature since 2017’s brilliant “You Were Never Really Here”) with Sissy Spacek, Mariska Hargitay and someone dressed as a turkey – or maybe it was a condor? It’s a little unclear.

Cannes, France – May 17: A condor attends the “Die My Love” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais...

Kristen Stewart never questioned her ability to direct when it came to making her filmmaking debut “The Chronology of Water,” but when she got to post-production, she thought she had “ruined the movie.”

“We got home and I was like, ‘I think I killed everything. I think everything’s dead,’” Stewart told TheWrap founder and CEO Sharon Waxman during TheWrap’s Cannes Conversations in partnership with Brand Innovators, adding that when she started to see what her actors brought to the screen, the film evolved. “Then I opened up all these stunning, beautiful gifts and I was like, ‘No, no, we just did something different.’ Ingratiating yourself to newness is difficult. It’s like you have to mourn the loss of a thing.”

The Oscar-nominated actress said that while she felt frustrated and impatient over the eight-year process of finally getting “Chronology of Water” made, she never questioned her own...

Kristen Stewart has been “wanting to make movies since I was nine or 10 years old,” she told me on her fourth trip to Cannes in 2017, for the short “Come Swim.” She’s been a fixture at the festival ever since her maiden voyage in 2012 with Walter Salles’ “On the Road,” followed by Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society,” Olivier Assayas’ “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “Personal Shopper,” and David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future.” She also served on Cate Blanchett’s Competition jury in 2018.

Stewart’s audacious debut, the Un Certain Regard entry “The Chronology of Water,” was well-received. After eight years of development, Scott Free financed the mood poem about swimming and writing for survival amid personal trauma. Stewart is ebullient after having talked about making her first feature for so long. Back in 2022, she announced that she was adapting (with Andy Mingo) Lidia Yuknavitch’s frank 2011 memoir. Stewart...

In 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, Kristen Stewart joined Ava DuVernay, Agnes Varda, Jane Fonda and over 80 other women in a protest on the steps of the Palais to draw attention to the lack of female directors programmed in the line-up. That year, only three out of the 21 competition films were directed by women.

Seven years later, Stewart is back at the festival with her directorial debut The Chronology of Water, but the journey was not an easy one. “We had to leave the United States to make this possible,” said Stewart of trying to get the film financed.

Stewart was on hand for a May 16 conversation with Chronolgy actor and musician Kim Gordon at Hyde Beach by Campari held by Breaking Through Lens. The non-profit group is focused on helping any filmmakers who experience marginalization due to their gender get their projects financed. At the event, Simbelle Productions founder...

Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water translates Lidia Yuknavitch’s fragmented memoir into a cinematic tapestry that pulses with raw intensity. The film traces Yuknavitch’s journey from a competitive swimmer grappling with familial violence to a writer seeking to reclaim her own story. Stewart abandons linear exposition: present-day crises collide with Super-8 childhood recollections, each segment anchored by Lidia’s murmured voiceover.

Imogen Poots embodies Lidia with striking authenticity, her athletic grace in water scenes contrasting sharply with her haunted eyes on land. When Poots slices through rippling waves, the camera tightens to capture every muscle’s tension—an unspoken language of escape. In quieter moments, close-ups of trembling hands or furrowed brows reveal layers of defiance and vulnerability that prose alone could never convey.

Stewart’s impressionistic editing—hard cuts interspersed with fluid montages—mirrors the way trauma shatters and reassembles memory. The narrative unfolds like a braided essay,...

Politics continues to trump business at this year’s Cannes film festival, with little in the way of deals out of the Marché, but lots of activist agitation on the red carpet and beyond. Cannes’ first weekend, traditionally the period when the bidding wars begin and the first big buys are announced, has been

almost frighteningly quiet.

The cautious, wait-and-see approach from buyers — already in evidence in Sundance and Berlin — continues amid growing uncertainty over financing and distribution models and, let’s face it, over the future of the movie business itself.

Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on “foreign-made” films, launched just ahead of Cannes, went off like a bomb under the already shaky foundations of the indie industry. Just how much damage has been done will only be possible to assess post-market when the dust has settled.

“The idea of tariffs is spooking people, especially financiers,” said one veteran indie producer.

Exclusive:Screen can reveal a first look at Emily Atef’s English-language debut Call Me Queen, led by Eliane Umuhire and Denise Gough, withDominic West and Laurent Lafitte joining the international cast.

The production has wrapped filming in Nairobi, Kenya.

Adapted from Lara Santoro’s 2007 novel Mercy, the film depicts a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a Rwandan woman, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.

Alongside Rwandan-French actress Umuhire and Gough on the cast are Charlie Carrick, who is in Kristen Stewart’s Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Chronology Of Water, and...

Exclusive: Dominic West and Laurent Lafitte are among the international cast in Emily Atef’s English-language debut Call Me Queen, which has wrapped filming in Nairobi, Kenya.

Adapted from Lara Santoro’s 2007 novel Mercy, the film depicts a friendship between an Irish journalist in Kenya and a local woman from the slums, who pair up to combat the AIDS crisis in the 1990s.

Rwandan-French actress Eliane Umuhire and Denise Gough lead the cast, alongside Charlie Carrick, who is in Kristen Stewart’s Cannes Un Certain Regard title The Chronology Of Water, and Danny Sapani; plus Kenyan actors Michelle Tiren, Nice Githinj and Lwanda Jawar.

Stuck sleeping on the street, with no one to turn to for help, nowhere to go... How can you pull yourself back together in this situation? How does one get out of this rut? The next actor trying their hand at directing is the very talented British youngster Harris Dickinson. His feature directorial debut is a movie titled Urchin, premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. This film is also playing alongside Kristen Stewart's directorial debut titled The Chronology of Water – and between these two projects, it is Dickinson's film and choices and vision that really stand out. Both written & directed by Dickinson, Urchin follows the compelling story of a homeless man named Mike – a rough sleeper in London, trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Not only is the direction confident and the vision for this story clear,...

Ever since the northeastern European nations Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania introduced their filming incentives about a decade ago, the region has been growing as a go-to destination for foreign shoots. No fewer than three weighty European co-productions selected for Cannes have chosen Latvia as a filming destination: Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water,” Sergei Loznitsa’s “Two Prosecutors” and Kirill Serebrennikov’s “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele.”

The Baltics’ biggest draws are their tax and cash rebates of up to 30% of local spend, which are topped by co-production and regional coin, as well as top crews, competitive production costs and diverse locations, ranging from medieval, baroque castles, Soviet era buildings, to rugged sea coastline and pristine forests.

Swedish producer Piodor Gustafsson who filmed in 2024 the Frank Spotnitz’s co-produced series “We Come in Peace” in Lithuania, praised ‘the “refreshingly straightforward” tax rebate, “exceptionally high” standard of crew and “abundance...

Taking a big creative swing as a public figure whose personal and professional life has been minutely scrutinized since childhood is a risk — and a calculated one in Kristen Stewart’s case. The “Personal Shopper” actor spent eight years developing her feature debut, “The Chronology of Water,” an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s eponymous memoir chronicling her escape from an abusive home through competitive swimming in the 1980s, and the many troubled, thorny years that would come after that separation.

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Kristen Stewart is hitting the red carpet at the premiere of her directorial debut!

The 35-year-old Oscar-nominated actress attended the premiere of her movie The Chronology of Water on Friday evening (May 16) held during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

For the event, Kristen rocked a bright white satin short suit paired with a coordinating satin white hat.

Cast members in attendance included Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Esmé Creed-Miles.

Earlier in the day, Kristen wore a semi-sheer outfit while out promoting the movie during the film festival.

Here’s the synopsis from the Cannes website: “Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to...

Okay, now Kristen Stewart is just showing off.

The Oscar nominated “Spencer” star steps behind the camera, writing and directing “The Chronology of Water,” which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. A portrait of pain, rebirth and reclamation, the film’s heartbeat comes from Stewart’s skillful and natural filmmaking. It is bolstered by two veteran actors we haven’t seen do something like this in years, Jim Belushi and Thora Birch.

Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, it recounts her story of going from a champion swimmer, to an addict, and later a writer. Stewart’s directorial debut has an avant-garde sensibility that’s part “The Basketball Diaries,” part Terrence Malick reverie, with a dash of Jim Jarmusch’s cool restraint and an undercurrent of rebellion that flows through it. The film benefits by being made from a female perspective that never shies...

Always makes me laugh when stars go to parties and then sequester themselves in roped-off VIP enclaves policed by grim-faced bouncers and eagle-eyed personal publicists. There was this odd sight of Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney leaning in from the outside to converse with Emma Stone seated inside the private zone at the afterparty for the Cannes Film Festival competition film Eddington directed by Ari Aster.

Guiney could’ve been invited in or Stone could’ve stepped out. I respect and admire actors of all ranks, and I understand their significance in our culture. And I get that they fear other people — I mean mere mortals. They might have an unapproved snap of themselves taken by someone. Me, for instance. Or they might have to have a conversation about which they weren’t given talking points ahead of time.

Anthony Hopkins always says — or he used to, anyway — that thespians can...

“I bled, I peed, I cried, and vomited.” This sentence comes at the end of the second paragraph of The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch’s extraordinary, extraordinarily raw 2011 memoir about growing up, nearly giving up, and straining to getting a grip on a traumatic past. It follows one of the most striking openings of any autobiography — an extended description of her holding her daughter moments after the stillborn baby has been delivered. Kristen Stewart has been talking about bringing Yuknavitch’s book to the screen for years. But she...

I’m always up for a movie directed by an actor I love. Often, that actor will turn out be good at directing other actors, and building a serviceable movie around that, and that’s about it. Yet there’s still an adventure involved when you feel like you really know an actor. I went into “The Chronology of Water,” the first movie directed by Kristen Stewart, with a heightened curiosity and a heightened hope. I’ve long felt that she’s a great actor and a great star. What would she reveal as a filmmaker?

The hope paid off. “The Chronology of Water” isn’t some pretty good, prosaic, actor-directs-actors-how-to-read-the-script thing. It’s far more artful and captivating than that. It’s based on the 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, who told the story of how she grew up in a sexually abusive household, and how she attempted to squirm...

Kristen Stewart’s long-awaited directorial debut The Chronology of Water received a warm reception at its world premiere in Cannes Friday night, with the crowd inside the Palais des Festivals greeting the film with a four-and-a-half-minute standing ovation.

An emotional Stewart embraced her actors with hugs and high-fives as the ovation carried on. She later bounded across the auditorium to give Cannes head Thierry Frémaux a long hug.

“I don’t have anything else to say; I left it all on the screen,” Stewart said in part. “Just thank you all for being here. Seriously, we finished the movie five minutes ago — it’s not even done. We got so lucky, and I’m so grateful to be here.”

She then gestured to her star, Imogen Poots, to take the mic, saying, “Truly, your body is the movie, I’m giving it to you.”

An emotional Poots obliged, saying only,...