Ashley Eakin's Forgive Us Our Trespasses is a thirteen-minute American short set during a Nazi campaign to hunt down people with disabilities.
What is Forgive Us Our Trespasses about?
During a period when Nazi forces are actively searching for and killing people with disabilities, a boy with a limb difference finds himself directly in their path. Running for his life, he is forced into a split-second, daring decision that will determine whether he survives the day. The short works within a tightly compressed runtime, using its length to keep the tension immediate and the stakes personal rather than sweeping across a wider historical canvas. Its cast is made up largely of young actors, reflecting a story told from a child's vantage point inside a moment of history usually rendered through adult perspectives. As a short film, Forgive Us Our Trespasses trades scope for concentration, using a single pursuit to represent a targeted campaign of violence that affected disabled people specifically, a dimension of the era's history that receives far less attention on screen than other chapters of the same period.
About the cast
The film's young cast includes Knox Gibson, Hanneke Talbot, Justin Mader, Nathaniel McParland, Tyler Hutchings, Noah Lamanna, Luke Marty, and Dan MacDonald.
Context & significance
Released in 2022, the film is a short-format American drama running just thirteen minutes, a scale that lets it focus tightly on one boy's ordeal rather than attempt a broader historical account. Short films addressing under-told chapters of wartime history have found a steady festival and streaming audience, and this one places disabled experience at the center of a period usually narrated around other groups.
Watching Forgive Us Our Trespasses on Ktime
Forgive Us Our Trespasses is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself is free to read without any login at all. K-Time's Farsi-language interface makes short-format and international drama like this easy for Persian-speaking viewers around the world to discover alongside feature-length titles.