The Charming Documentary Where Truffle-Hunting Dogs Are The Stars

"The Truffle Hunters" is now playing in select theaters and will premiere on VOD this spring. Sony Pictures Classics When Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw decided to make a documentary about the secretive world of Italian truffles, they asked a local trattoria owner to introduce them to the restaurant’s supplier. The next morning, there’s a truffle.’” These gastronomic excavators — at least the ones in Northern Italy’s Piedmont hills, where “The Truffle Hunters” takes place — are a rarified bunch: aging technophobes who deploy their well-trained dogs to sniff out and unearth small fungi that can sell for thousands of dollars per kilo. Sony Pictures Classics “We wanted to understand the world of the people that we were filming,” Kershaw said during a recent phone conversation. Sony Pictures Classics Following the men’s adventures — it’s always men; the region’s women have their own secrets, Dweck promised — feels like entering a storybook.