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Critics' Choice
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Swimming is not just a sport for Lidia, but also her only safe refuge from a difficult everyday life: an abusive father and an emotionally distant mother. However, the tranquility of the pool does not protect her from the later blows of fate: a rebellious adolescence, battles with addiction, and the shattering experience of losing her firstborn child. Lidia drowns in her pain in order to resurface again. The path to healing leads through writing and the courage to accept her body and her past as they were – unpolished and real.
This film may contain scenes that some viewers may find distressing.
This film may contain scenes that some viewers may find distressing.
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“The Chronology of Water is a rare example of cinema where a biographical story does not turn into a dry collection of facts, but becomes a living, breathing experience. In the film based on Lidia Yuknavitch’s cult memoirs, actress Kristen Stewart – making her directorial debut – rejects a conventional linear narrative structure in favor of a fluid, fragmentary style, where memory ebbs and flows like the ocean.” (Programme curator Karolis Žukas)
Awards
World PremiereCannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard Section, 2025
Credentials
- DirectingKristen Stewart
- The scriptKristen Stewart, Andy Mingo
- PlaysImogen Poots, Thora Birch, Charlie Carrick, Tom Sturridge, Susannah Flood, Esme Allen, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Jim Belushi, Esmé Creed-Miles, Eleanor Hahn, Earl Cave, Esme Allen, Jeffrey Grinvalds, Ritvars Logins, Peter Rundle, Georgie Dettmer, Keanu Visscher, Alhena Al-Ali Douglas
- AssemblyOlivia Neergaard-Holm
- CameraCorey C. Waters
- MusicParis Hurley
- ProducingKristen Stewart, Ridley Scott, Michael A. Pruss, Andy Mingo, Charles Gillibert, Yulia Zayceva, Max Pavlov, Svetlana Punte, Maggie McLean, Dylan Meyer, Christian Vesper, Scott Aharoni, Mélanie Biessy, Chris Cooper, Corentin De Saedeleer, Sinan Eczacibasi, Rebecca Feuer, Daniel John Goldberg, Abigail Honor, Alexander Johnson, Patrick Sutter, Yan Vizinberg, Metin Alihan Yalcindag
- TranslationEmilija Ferdmanaitė
- DialoguesEnglish
- SubtitlesLithuanian
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