In 1938 Orson Welles caused panic across America by broadcasting a radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds. Many listeners took it for real. Almost 90 years later the episode no longer surprise us: immersed in a continuous flow of information, we struggle to distinguish reality from its representation, and the line between what is true, plausible and false seems thinner than ever.

Fortunately, in a world where everything can be questioned and AI seems to represent the latest frontier of knowledge, archives watch over us like lighthouses in a storm. But they also remind us that while archives preserve evidence, history is always open to interpretation.

That is why, following in the footsteps of Orson Welles and Julien Temple, who explored this question through, radio, cinema and television, Archivissima 27 also asks: “IT'S ALL TRUE? È TUTTO VERO?”.