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Marco is an art historian who has spent decades in Rome, teaching and writing about the Baroque masters. When he grows distant and unreachable, he is quietly let go from his post and returns to Cortona, where his estranged wife Giulia and their young daughter Lucia live. Reunited with his oldest friend Pietro, Marco borrows a battered vintage Fiat and sets out with Lucia on a summer journey toward Rome and the River Tiber, determined to fulfil a promise connected to the loss that has quietly unravelled his life. Through sunlit valleys and ancient hill towns, past Lago Trasimeno, the hermitage at Le Celle and the streets of Florence, father and daughter move through a landscape dense with history and beauty, a world where art and place seem to mirror an interior life Marco can no longer keep at bay. Lucia is curious, funny and disarmingly perceptive. Between them passes the particular tenderness of a father and daughter finding their way back to each other. As the journey unfolds, small details begin to shift the terms of what we are watching. The road to the Tiber becomes not a summer escape but a passage through memory, absence and the rituals by which we try to carry love through loss. Moving toward the ancient waters of the river, Marco is drawn at last toward a truth he can no longer outrun. TIBER is the debut narrative feature of Irish-Australian writer-director Dominic Allen, an Italian-language arthouse drama shot in Rome, Cortona and Florence. NSW Premiere Cast and Crew Will be in attendance