The United Nations General Assembly declared 1979 the International Year of the Child to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. But in the Palestinian refugee camp of Tel al-Zaatar, in Lebanon, where nearly 300 children had lost their parents at the hands of the Israeli army, talking about children's rights was a cruel joke. "The children of Tel al-Zaatar had nothing: no families, no homes, no healthcare, nothing. And when I learned that it was the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, I decided to make a film to show how they lived," explains Khadijeh Habashneh (Karak, Jordan, 1945), the director. Children without childhood, who on Thursday inaugurated the Arab and Mediterranean Film Festival at the Filmoteca de Catalunya.