Michele Manzolini, Paolo Simoni (authors/curators) / Italy / 40’ / 2025

La Liberazione, un film di famiglia is a montage of amateur film images documenting and witnessing the period from the fall of fascism to the Liberation, culminating in the last ten days of April 1945. Images that come from below, amid moments of disbelief, emotion and happiness, but also of dramatic junctures: the partisan struggle, the bombings that gut the cities, the escape of the Germans. Amateur cinema thus becomes an eyewitness to History and everyday life, between the smiles that exorcise the moments of war and the smiles of Liberation.

Music Guglielmo Pagnozzi.
Production Home Movies Foundation – National Family Film Archive, Istituto Storico Parri Bologna Metropolitana, National Film Archive of the Resistance
In collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Cinescatti Archivio of Lab 80 film – Archivio regionale del film amatoriale e di famiglia of Amateur and Family Film – Lombardy, Archivio Superottimisti and CSC Cagliari of Società Umanitaria – Cineteca Sarda

Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia di Bologna
For more than two decades, the Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia di Bologna has been bringing selections of amateur films and found footage films to the public with the aim of promoting the private/reedited audiovisual heritage and through it proposing a different look at the history of the 20th century. La Liberazione, un film di famiglia is a collective film produced in 2025 for the 80th anniversary of the Liberation from the amateur footage of Giuseppe Bacigalupo, Luciano Bergonzini, Claudio Borello, Costantino Forleo, Antonio Marchi, Don Giuseppe Pollarolo, Michele Rosboch, Edoardo Scotti, Renato Vanzetti and other anonymous authors, preserved by the Home Movies Foundation – National Family Film Archive, National Film Archive of the Resistance, Cineteca di Bologna, National Film Museum, Cinescatti Archive of Lab 80 film – Regional Archive of Amateur and Family Film – Lombardy, and Superoptimists Archive.