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The Optimist

2026· 102 minNR★ 6.8

From Stillking Films · Convoke Media · Witchcraft Motion Picture Company

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Synopsis

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.

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Directed by Finn Taylor

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