The Optimist

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.

Director: Finn Taylor

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elsie Fisher, Jake Lucas, Josh Schell, Luke David Blumm, Robin Weigert, Stephanie Heiner, Stephen Lang