First Wave

Special screening with director Max Dufaud, Rémi Frechette and Kevin T. Landry and producer Jarrett Mann in attendance. 

March 12th, 2020. COVID-19 has just been declared a global pandemic, it is the beginning of confinement in Quebec. Samuel, Fanny, Daniel and Marianne, four Montrealers from very different backgrounds, must now adapt to this new reality. What they believe to be a temporary situation will become a long ordeal that will change their lives forever. Between reality and fiction, Première vague takes a look at the first 100 days of the pandemic in Montreal.

THE STORY BEHIND THE FILM

Première vague, Kino Montréal’s first official feature film, is an ambitious work that was conceived, written and shot at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. The project began in the spring of 2020, in full confinement, with the objective of producing a film that would portray the first 100 days of the pandemic in Montreal. Filmed in July 2020, just a few weeks after authorization was given for the resumption of filming in Quebec, all under unprecedented health constraints.

GAGNANT Prix RÉALS 2022 – oeuvre de fiction unique