We present the full programme of the goEast Film Festival’s annual short film competition, the RheinMain Prize. Under the heading “Native Edition”, this year’s selection is drawn from “autonomous, indigenous, or marginalised” film cultures in the post-Soviet space: from Kalmykia and the Sakha Republic in Russia, to Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea and the Pamir mountains of Kyrgryzstan. These shorts speak to the diversity and vitality of creative ecosystems that are too often erased in discussions of post-Soviet film, and open up discussions about the “decolonisation” of the region’s cinema.