BBFF2026 Meet the Filmmaker: Dominic Allen

Following Australian-Italian art historian Marco and his young daughter Lucia on a summer journey through Italy, TIBER is a quiet story of memory, grief and the connections that remain with us.

For director and producer Dominic Allen, the film grew from his years living and studying in Rome, where he became fascinated by the way the city holds its past in the present. What began as a feeling about memory, art and the enduring nature of place eventually found its shape in a father, a daughter, a small gold car and the Tiber River. Now, after being written, shot, edited and finished across Italy and the Northern Rivers, Dominic invites audiences to experience a story that asks what we carry with us — and whether everything we carry needs to be resolved.