THE FURNACE (2020) Trailer, In Cinemas December 10
1897 Western Australia. To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with two 400oz Crownmarked gold bars. Together the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace the one place where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown. The Furnace is an unlikely heros tale, navigating greed and the search for identity in a new land. The film illuminates the forgotten history of Australias Ghan cameleers, predominantly Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who opened up the Nations desert interior, thereby forming unique bonds with local Aboriginal people. In Cinemas December 10
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