THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS

A bucolic-melancholic look at a special kind of “hunters”: These elderly gentlemen striding through the Piedmont forest with their trained dogs are searching for the white Alba truffles. The expensive tubers sell for several thousand Euros per kilo. THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS concentrates mainly on these eccentric elderly cranks and their loving relationship to their dogs. But it also shows how climate change and criminal competition threatens the survival of this old tradition.