“I’ve fought enough,” says Levan, a Georgian man who, in 2008, worked with foreign journalists during the Russo-Georgian war. Years later, the memories are still with him — in old tapes, in silence, in familiar landscapes.

"Held" is a story of returning. Through honest conversations, friend gatherings, and small everyday moments, the film explores his attempt to find peace with the past — and with a war that never quite ended.

Animation: Aleksandra Kulikova

For the past eight years, the Vympel search team, together with students of Moscow State University, has been traveling to the Smolensk region every spring. It was there, not far from the village of Uvarovo, that in 1941 several thousand soldiers of the 8th Krasnopresnenskaya division fought and died. Among them were students and employees of Moscow State University.