IL CIVICO MERCATO DI SASSARI (THE CIVIC MARKET OF SASSARI)

“The civic market of Sassari. Testimonies and stories of a change” is an independent film project that takes shape in 2011, in the moment immediately preceding the closure of the old market and its moving in the adjacent new area, inaugurated by the municipality in December 2012.
The docu-film tells stories of work, of a life spent in the city’s historical place for trade, where the commercial tradition of the three main economic activities of ancient Sassari is still kept: the agricultural work of the greengrocers, the cattle breeding with the butchers and the fish sellers.
The final closure of the old the civic market’s area has certainly marked a turning point in the historical heart of the city, but without erasing the fascination of the ancient  “agora” in the collective imagination.
The documentary film reconstructs the history of the civic market from the writings of Enrico Costa, telling the popular, cultural and economic spirit of the Sassari’s market and its characters, until depicting the changes of the new urban “face” marked by the economic evolution of the city nowadays. The trailer with the original musics by the Sassari singer and songwriter Gavino Riva.