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First Winter

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A historical drama depicting an Irish immigrant family’s first winter in Canada, where isolation, illness, and an unforgiving landscape test their will to survive.

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Released
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Language
English

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Canada

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical1 Oct 1982
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical (limited)14A1 Oct 1982

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First Winter was released on 1 October 1982.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/27/2025

    6/10

    This is quite a chilling short drama that follows a young Irish immigrant family as they struggle with their first winter in Canada. With her husband having to work elsewhere, it falls to a mother to keep her daughter and younger son from the bitterness of the climate. It’s a constant cycle of chopping wood and breaking the ice to provide water and that, in the face of the constantly sub-zero temperatures, ultimately…

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