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.
Practical Effects
Every frame is literally hand-cut paper. You can feel the scissors.
Direction
Curi makes paper feel more human than most CGI humans.
Sound
The rustle of paper becomes its own emotional language.
Director
Julian Curi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Julian Curi cut every paper piece himself over eight months, using actual family photos as reference for the characters' faces.
The film's 'western' genre tag isn't aesthetic fluff—it reframes the stoic cowboy archetype as generational Mexican-American masculinity, where silence is both armor and prison.
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