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.

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut “The Chronology of Water” premiered at Cannes Film Festival to a just over four-minute standing ovation on Friday night — and left many in the crowd wiping their eyes.

Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s acclaimed 2011 memoir of the same name, the film stars Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Nick Cave's son Earl Cave and Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon.