Rushdie’s Recovery Becomes a Rallying Cry for Culture at Sundance
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At Sundance 2026, Alex Gibney’s Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie charts Rushdie’s brutal 2022 stabbing, his ongoing recovery captured by his wife’s footage, and the film’s broader meditation on culture, violence, and free expression amid rising authoritarianism, linking past fatwas to today’s threats while celebrating the courage of those who saved him.
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