116 mins |
Rated
MA15+ (Strong themes and violence)
Directed by Roderick MacKay
Starring Erik Thomson, Jay Ryan, Mahesh Jadu, Goran D. Kleut, David Wenham
Flix in the Wet screens at Darwin Entertainment Centre. DFS Members can get their tickets here, for all other tickets go to www.yourcentre.com.au
Additional Language: Badimaya.
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 Crown-marked 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 film is an unlikely hero’s tale, navigating greed and the search for identity in a new land. It illuminates the forgotten history of Australia’s “Ghan” cameleers, predominantly Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who opened up the Nation’s desert interior, thereby forming unique bonds with local Aboriginal people.
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Flix in the Wet screens at Darwin Entertainment Centre. DFS Members can get their tickets here, for all other tickets go to www.yourcentre.com.au
Additional Language: Badimaya.
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 Crown-marked 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 film is an unlikely hero’s tale, navigating greed and the search for identity in a new land. It illuminates the forgotten history of Australia’s “Ghan” cameleers, predominantly Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who opened up the Nation’s desert interior, thereby forming unique bonds with local Aboriginal people.