Fiennes made her directorial debut with the film
Onegin – an adaptation of
Alexander Pushkin's verse novel
Eugene Onegin, which starred her brother Ralph in the title role. The film received much praise, and she won the Best Director Award at the
Tokyo Film Festival and the Best Newcomer at the
London Film Critics' Circle. Fiennes wrote her second feature film in 2005,
Chromophobia, an original multi-stranded drama, which comprised an all star cast and which closed the
Cannes Film Festival of 2005. ==Personal life==