The fifth International Festival of Women world was held in Tuebingen of Germany November 17-23 and the motion pictures Stray Dogs directed by Marziyeh Meshkiny and Kandahar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf were shown in the festival. Marziyeh Meshkiny and Mohsen Makhmalbaf both attended this festival. In the previous years, this festival had screened the films Apple, Gabbeh and the Day I Became a Woman.