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Anti-racism counselling: Phyllis Quartey\r\n\r\nSupported by the LWL-Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and Engagement Global, with funds from the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.","link":"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie-category\/focus-en-2025\/","name":"Focus","slug":"focus-en-2025","taxonomy":"movie_cat","parent":780,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Focus - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie-category\/focus-en-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Focus - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learning and Unlearning Film \u2013 Decolonising Cinema Across the history of cinema and through all film lengths and formats, we address urgent discourses in the FOCUS section of our programme. 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