The Bridge, a new Australian short film made by Metro Screen members George Barbakadze and Lazaro Hernandez recently won the top prize at Melbourne’s Queer Film Festival is to be featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s presentation of Another Wave: Global Queer Cinema in New York.
The Bridge tells the story of a gay couple from Georgia (former USSR) who escape to Australia to seek asylum because of homophobia in their home country. They build a new life in Sydney while they await the response to their immigration applications. One of them gets a visa to stay in Australia. The future of their relationship hangs on the balance of the second letter from immigration.
