Fatwa: Salman’s Story

September 19, 2012

How does it feel to be on the run, to live in hiding and under a death sentence for a decade? The inside story of Salman Rushdie and the Fatwa, with intimate access to friends who sheltered him, family and bodyguards.

WINNER, GRIERSON AWARD, 2013

‘… a hugely insightful and occasionally thrilling examination of one man’s struggle, with lashings of dark humour.’
Time Out

‘Excellent … captures not only the fraught global political climate of the times but the surreal quality of Rushdie’s twilight existence.’
Telegraph

AWARDS

• Grierson Award 2013 for Best Arts Documentary
• Vermont International Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection
• Montreal International Festival of Films on Art 2013 – Opening Gala

REVIEWS

• Time Out
• The Guardian
• The Telegraph
• New Statesman
• The Independent
• The Arts Desk

LINKS

• Official BBC Website
• The Mirror