Kristen Stewart said on Saturday that making her directorial debut with "The Chronology of Water" at the Cannes Film Festival felt like sending a child off to school for the first time.

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.