Matera - Von der Steinzeit in den Cyberspace (2019)

Matera in southern Italy is European Capital of Culture in 2019. The city is the oldest permanently inhabited place in the world of which we know. The Sassi, the cave dwellings of Matera have been inhabited for 9,000 years and have made the place a popular film location for major international film productions. While poverty, decay, emigration of youth and organized crime characterize Italy's south, in Matera an opposite development becomes noticeable. The film accompanies a group of young creatives, who consciously returned to Matera and established the co-living collective "Casa Netural". With their projects they show how many creative possibilities can be found in rural regions on the periphery of Europe in a society in times of the Internet. As a consequence of the Capital of Culture project, they also want to transform Matera into a hotspot for the Open Data movement in order to put a halt to corruption and organized crime by utmost transparency. They find unexpected support for their ambitious plans.