Salman Rushdie

Richard Karz's documentary, filmed entirely on the second anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, intercuts clips from events occurring around New York City that day with scenes from a formal dinner and discussion that night in the landmark Surrogate's Courthouse. (nytimes.com)

A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students. (imdb)

A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. (imdb)

Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams follows Oz through two years of his life as he meets readers in Israel and all around the world and works to promote the Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During the film, Oz meets fellow-writers, like Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster and Nadine Gordimer, offers advice to the Israeli president Shimon Peres, and conducts a long dialogue with Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh. (en.wikipedia.org)