Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer Debut as a Couple at AFI FEST Screening of “The Chronology of Water”

Kristen Stewart was supported by her new wife Dylan Meyer on Sunday, as she presented a special screening of her new film, The Chronology Of Water, during 2025 AFI FEST in Hollywood.

The actress, 35, and the screenwriter, 37, looked to still be enjoying the honeymoon phase, as they made their first red carpet outing together since tying the knot six months ago.

Kristen set pulses racing as she went braless under a semi-sheer lace gown that hugged every inch of her svelte frame, teamed with matching leggings underneath.

Sweeping her hair up into an elegant top knot, the Spencer star beamed as she held tightly onto her wife’s hand and pulled playful poses for the cameras.

Dylan was ever the proud partner by her side, cutting a casual figure in a plain black T-shirt, olive green trousers and patent leather brogues.

The newly-wedded couple said ‘I do’ in an intimate and heartfelt ceremony back in April, surrounded by their family and friends.

Snaps from the understated nuptials showed Kristen nervously reading her vows out to Dylan as she held her hands, before Dylan took her turn and left Kristen wiping her eyes.

They opted for an edgy twist on their bridal wear, with Dylan sporting a sheer blouse and satin skirt, while Kristen wore a cream patterned shirt and short co-ord.

Although the couple reportedly met back in 2013 on a movie set, they didn’t strike up a romance until years later in August 2019, when they were reunited at a mutual friend’s party.

In the summer of 2021, the two sparked engagement rumors after they were both seen wearing rings on their left hands, with Kristen later confirming the happy news to Howard Stern in November.

The Chronology of Water is Kristen’s directorial debut, which she also co-produced and adapted for the screen from the visceral 2011 memoir by American swimmer Lidia Yuknavitch.

Imogen Poot stars as Lidia in the stirring drama, which tells her story about becoming a competitive swimmer after surviving an abusive childhood.

Imogen, 36, put on a leggy display at the screening in a blue and green ombre minidress covered in sparkling sequins.

While Thora Birch, who plays her onscreen sister, oozed gothic chic in a black lace gown with a sheer tulle skirt. 

Kirsten first presented the film at Cannes Film Festival earlier in May – where it was met with critical acclaim and and a standing ovation.

Variety called it ‘a stirring drama of abuse and salvation, told with poetic passion’, while Indiewire critic David Ehrlich said ‘there isn’t a single millisecond of this movie that doesn’t bristle with the raw energy of an artist’.

Following the Cannes premiere, Kristen opened up about her passion to tell Lidia’s story, telling AFP: ‘I had just never read a book like that that is screaming out to be a movie, that needs to be moving, that needs to be a living thing.

She gushed how it was awe-inspiring how Lidia was ‘able to take really ugly things, process them, and put out something that you can live with, something that actually has joy.

‘The reason I really wanted to make the movie is because I thought it was hilarious in such a giddy and excited way, like we were telling secrets. I think the book is a total lifeboat.

It certainly saved Lidia and made her a cult writer, with her viral TED Talk The Beauty of Being a Misfit inspiring a spin-off book, The Misfit’s Manifesto.

Kristen told AFP: ‘Being a woman is a really violent experience. Even if you don’t have the sort of extreme experience that we depict in the film or that Lidia endured and came out of beautifully’.

The Twilight star insisted there were no autobiographical parallels per se that drew her to the original book.

She explained: ‘I didn’t have to do a bunch of research. I’m a female body that’s been walking around for 35 years. Look at the world that we live in.

‘I don’t have to have been abused by my dad to understand what it is like to be taken from, to have my voice stifled, and to not trust myself. It takes a lot of years (for that) to go.

‘I think that this movie resonates with anyone who is open and bleeding, which is 50 percent of the population.’

Kristen told reporters she was never really tempted to play Lidia herself, before deciding to cast Imogen, who she called ‘the best actress of our generation’.

She gushed: ‘She is so lush, so beautiful and she’s so cracked herself open in this. She has this big boob energy in the film – even though she is quite flat-chested – these big blue eyes and this long hair.’ 

Kristen described her movie’s fever-dream energy as ‘a pink muscle that is throbbing’ and that Imogen was able to tap into, channelling Lidia’s ferocious but often chaotic battle to rebuild herself and find pleasure and happiness in her life.

‘Pain and pleasure, they’re so tied, there’s a hairline fracture there,’ Kristen told the Cannes Festival’s video channel.

She added that Lidia’s book ‘sort of meditates on what art can do for you after people do things to your body – the violation and the thievery, the gouging out of desire. Which is a very female experience.’

Kristen said Lidia discovered that the only way to take desire back was to ‘bespoke it… and repurpose the things that have been given to you in order for you to own them.’

She added: I’m not being dramatic, but as women we are walking secrets.’