Tiber

A journey through beauty, memory and the weight of what we carry.

After losing his job in Rome, Australian-Italian art historian Marco returns to Tuscany. With his young daughter Lucia he sets out in a battered gold Fiat X1/9 on a summer journey toward Rome and the River Tiber.

Through sunlit valleys, ancient hill towns and the streets of Florence, father and daughter move through a landscape dense with art, history and remembrance. What begins as a small journey becomes a passage through memory, inheritance and the difficulty of letting go.

TIBER is the debut narrative feature from filmmaker Dominic Allen, an Australian-Italian production shot in Rome, Cortona and Florence. It draws on the long European tradition of the road film and the personal essay, with the unhurried looking of contemporary slow cinema.