In August 2022, decades after Iran issued a fatwa calling for his death, world-renowned author Salman Rushdie was brutally attacked on stage in New York, stabbed 15 times before an audience.
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney delivers a defiant, deeply personal portrait of survival, recovery, and artistic courage. Drawing on Rushdie’s celebrated memoir and featuring never-before-seen, unflinching home footage captured by his wife, poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, KNIFE traces Rushdie’s physical and spiritual rehabilitation after losing an eye and the use of a hand. Equal parts intimate love story and urgent defense of free speech, the film celebrates art as the ultimate instrument of resistance against censorship and terror.