The Furnace
Set in the Western Australian outback during the gold rushes of the 1890s. To escape a harsh existence and return to his home country, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold. The film illuminates the forgotten history of Australia's 'Ghan' cameleers, comprised mostly of Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who traversed the Nation's vast desert interior and formed unique bonds with local Aboriginal people.
Director: Roderick MacKay,
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, Western,
Cast: Ahmed Malek, Baykali Ganambarr, Kaushik Das, Noah Skape, Andrew Hale, David Wenham, Samson Coulter, Erik Thomson, Graham Boyce, Jay Ryan, Steve McCall, Wakarra Gondarra, Peter Jones, Gregory Shar, Latrell Curley, Trevor Jamieson, Sean Choolburra, Goran D. Kleut, Mahesh Jadu, Matthew Parkin, Mansoor Noor, Osamah Sami, Dayal Singh, Daniel Motearefi, Don Smith, Evan Williams, James Hagan, Gary Young, Xin Ocean, Quentin Yung,