Film Screening at The Theatre - The Furnace (dir. Roderick MacKay)
After the last film programming I did for The Theatre in November, I happy to program a new series of screenings at the same venue later this month.
We will start with an Australian film called The Furnace, directed by Roderick MacKay and starring the Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek.
The Furnace had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival last September, followed by its Arab premiere at El Gonna Film Festival last October.
The film has received positive reviews, you can read Variety’s review here and The Guardian’s review here, so I am happy we will get to see it on the big screen here in Dubai.
Tickets: https://ae.bookmyshow.com/specials/the-furnace/ET00007320
Dates:
March 22 at 6pm and 9pm
March 23 at 6pm and 9pm
March 24 at 6pm and 9pm
March 26 at 9pm
March 30 at 6pm and 9pm
March 31 at 9pm
Venue: The Theatre, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai. Entrance is on the 2nd level of the mall’s parking, between rows A5 and A6 (on the Ski Dubai side of the mall).
The Furnace
Director: Roderick MacKay
2020, 116 min, Drama, Western, PG-15, English, Badimaya (Western Australia's Aboriginal language), Pashto, Punjabi, Cantonese with English and Arabic subtitles
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 Furnace is an unlikely hero’s tale, navigating greed and the search for identity in a new land. The film 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.
The Theatre is following the required government regulations with regards to cleanliness and social distancing, including reduced seating capacity with vacant seats next to the booked seats.
