On Thursday, March 18 the Narooma Kinema will host the premier of 'The Truffle Hunters', the 10th annual fundraiser for the Narooma Community Garden. Drinks and nibbles served at 6.30pm with the screening at 7pm - $20 inclusive.
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The octogenarian Truffle Hunters are a charismatic group of men and their clever dogs who search for 'White Magic'... the elusive Alba Truffle. This rare white truffle defies cultivation. It grows wild at the roots of ancient Oak trees in the last remaining forests around Piedmont in northern Italy.
They forage in the dark so nobody can see where they go.
They forage in the snow, the rain and the cold and sometimes in vain, because now there are fewer truffles.
Forests are disappearing to make way for vineyards. Climate change and agricultural pollution are destroying these exotic crops and with them goes the 'other worldly' culture of the truffle hunter.
"Truffles can, on certain occasions, make women more tender and men more lovable." (Dumas)
