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Previously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie’s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
+ MorePreviously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie’s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
Alex Gibney, a Sundance Film Festival alumnus, builds upon his body of work with his latest film that explores the ways religion, art, and free speech intermingle. Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie brings these threads together in a contemporary climate where outspoken artists are under unprecedented threat. Rushdie guides the film in his own words — through his historic career, his writing practice, and the momentous cultural weight of his work. Breathtaking proximity through narration and intimate footage detail his recovery from his 2022 attack, an event which has become darkly prescient in the intervening years. Gibney gives us a magnificent gift in documenting this literary titan and great thinker as he navigates questions around violence, forgiveness, and expression — questions whose answers are needed now more than ever. — AC
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Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney
Erin Edeiken
Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Andy Grieve
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Richard Perello
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Bill Kirstein
Will Bates
Mahak Jiwani
Daniel Bellone
Jonas Bender-Nash
Nancy Hoang
Julie Gratz
Chad Sikora
Erin Edeiken
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Alex Gibney is an Oscar-, Emmy-, Grammy-, and Peabody-winning filmmaker known for incisive, gripping documentaries. His works include Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear, Enron, In Restless Dreams, and forthcoming films on Elon Musk and Luigi Mangione.
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