The Optimist (2026)

Release Date: 2026-03-11
Runtime: 1h 42min
Production Company: Stillking Films
Production Country: Czech Republic, United States of America
Director: Finn Taylor

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.