Burst The Silence (Feature Film) - CIFF 2025

Burst The Silence

Directed by: Eric D. Schaeffer

Starring: Marcy Harriell, Nick Blaemire,Susan Rome,Declan Fennell,Bobby Smith,Robbie Schaefer

Run Time: 1:42:00

Premiere Status: Arizona Premiere

Burst The Silence is a musical fable about a father and son and a gift that gives voice to a haunted past. Robbie is a precocious kid growing up with his father, Konnie. A charismatic and irrepressible storyteller, Konnie is also shadowed by a memory that has remained hidden in the woods of his childhood: how he, as a young boy, survived the Holocaust. A turn in both their lives comes when Konnie gives seven-year-old Robbie a guitar, neither of them yet realizing that it will allow Robbie to tell the only story his father never could. Burst The Silence is an elegiac memoir about forgetting and remembering and being lost. And being found.

Host or Publisher Chandler International Film Festival