Sundance film festival: a new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed him Sundance film festival: a new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed him O n 12 August 2022, as Salman Rushdie was about to launch into a lecture on the importance of protecting writers from harm at New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a man in a black mask rushed the stage with a