Interview with Artan Minarolli, director of Albania's internationally acclaimed film Alive (2009). About a young man named Koll in Tirana, Albania who is just trying to live the modern life of a university student but gets stuck in an ancient blood feud in the countryside of his ancestral land. Will modern times help Koll escape his tragic familial fate? I met Artan Minarolli in January in Palm Springs at the closing night party where were all packed tight in a room hiding from ...