ALIVE!
Category: Feature Film
Director: Artan Minarolli
Producer: Dritan Huqi
Country: Albania, Austria, France
Year: 2009
Length: 90'
Production Status: completed
Participating Shooting Stars:
Nik Xhelilaj
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ALIVE!
Twenty-two-year-old Koli is studying at Tirana university. When he hears of his father's death, he returns to his native mountain village in the north to attend the funeral. During a walk through the countryside of his childhood, someone takes a shot at him. In a state of shock, the young man discovers that he is part of a blood feud sparked by his grandfather sixty years earlier. He goes to see the family to whom, according to custom, he owes his life - and, in doing so, he makes the acquaintance of the murderer whom fate has determined will take it. Away from his modern urban environment, Koli suddenly finds himself in a world of ancient, inexorable rituals, from which he is unable to extricate himself even after his return to Tirana.
