Julian Curi

GRUFF is a handmade, paper short film that tells the story of a daughter, mother, and grandfather and how love is conveyed in different ways.

A meditation on St. Maximilian Kolbe's Consecration to Mary, from his childhood encounter with the Mother of God, through his building newspapers across Europe and Asia to spread devotion to her, all the way to the darkness of World War II and Auschwitz, where he continued to preach the truth and eventually gave his life in place of another prisoner.

On the run after the demise of his Knight, a lowly Squire is forced to detach from his technology to survive - and become the liberator of his kind.

Gifted with eternal life after drinking from the Holy Grail, a medieval knight spawns an alternate history where technology is God, and man becomes machine.

Bonita & the Bandit is a short film and the full, color-version, of the 'mini-Episode' that plays throughout the Short Film GRUFF.

A young father learns that what he has is more important that what has been lost.