Renowned director Alex Gibney’s documentary about the brutal attempted killing of Salman Rushdie in 2022, who had been living under a fatwa by Iran’s Ayatollah–a religious edict calling for his death–for nearly four decades after the publication of The Satanic Verses. Featuring numerous interviews with Rushdie and intimate footage from his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Knife examines the revered author’s past, his post-attack recovery, and a lifelong struggle for the freedom of expression.