THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS

By Michael DWECK, Gregory KERSHAW

AEGEAN FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2020
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY, USA, GREECE
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michael DWECK, Gregory KERSHAW
    • Synopsis
    • Deep in the forests of Northern Italy resides the prized white Alba truffle. Desired by the wealthiest patrons in the world, it remains a pungent but rarified mystery. It cannot be cultivated or found, even by the most resourceful of modern excavators. The only souls on Earth who know how to dig it up are a tiny circle of canines and their silver-haired human companions—Italian elders with walking sticks and devilish senses of humor—who only scour for the truffle at night so as not to leave any clues for others.