Image: Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia
Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut 'The Chronology of Water' is set for a screening run at Nuovo Eden in Brescia, with Fondazione Brescia Musei listing the film in its summer programme for 16 to 19 July 2026. The film will screen in original version with Italian subtitles across four showings, beginning with a 16 July slot in Sala 2 at 18:30 and continuing on 17, 18 and 19 July in Sala 1 or Sala 2 at the times specified by the venue.
The film adapts Lidia Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, and the source material describes it as following Lidia through a painful trajectory of self-destruction before she finds, in writing, a way to rebuild her identity. The Brescia presentation frames the project as an intense, visceral work, and the venue’s description says Stewart’s feature explores how trauma can be turned into art through the recovery of personal stories, including those experienced through the bodies of women and girls.
According to the venue information, 'The Chronology of Water' is a 2025 production from the United States and France, with a running time of 128 minutes. The listed cast includes Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Susannah Flood, Tom Sturridge, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Jim Belushi and Earl Cave. The film is presented in Brescia as part of the Nuovo Eden cinema line-up rather than as a standalone museum exhibition, and the source material places it within the broader programming of Fondazione Brescia Musei’s film venue.
The website copy also situates the film within Stewart’s wider profile by noting that this is her first feature as a director. In the venue’s own wording, the debut carries “Cronenberg-like” shadows and is described as impetuous, rough around the edges and burning with passion. That language comes from the venue’s presentation of the film and underscores the kind of reception Brescia is inviting audiences to expect.
The festival context is equally explicit: 'The Chronology of Water' is identified as an official selection in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section. No further awards, release details or distribution information are provided in the source pages, so the Brescia notice confines itself to the Cannes selection and the film’s book-to-screen adaptation.
Nuovo Eden, operated by Fondazione Brescia Musei, is the city’s art-house cinema within the museum network. The venue’s summer calendar also lists other titles and programme strands, but 'The Chronology of Water' is one of the featured films beginning on 16 July. The screening dates published on the site are 16 July at 18:30, 17 July at 19:00, 18 July at 18:30 and 19 July at 18:30, all with Italian subtitles and original-language presentation.
