The Optimist

2026· 102 min★ 6.5· Drama

Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.

Cast: Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Luke David Blumm

Director: Finn Taylor