Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali – Atfal Walakin AKA Children Nevertheless AKA Children Without Childhood (1979)

Produced by the Palestinian Cinema Institute and the General Union of Palestinian Women

On August 12, 1976, during the civil war in Lebanon, the Tal al-Zaatar refugee camp was attacked by Phalangists.

2,000 people are massacred. A house welcomes orphans. The camera accompanies them in their everyday life, in their suffering, in the precariousness of the refugee camps in neighboring countries and in Palestine under Israeli occupation.

1979, the year of the shoot, is also “The International Year of the Child”. The articles of the future International Convention on the Rights of the Child are confronted with the reality of the lives of these Palestinian children.

Quote:
The Palestine Film Unit (PFU) came together as the filmic arm of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). After a few reformations, it eventually became the Palestinian Cinema Institute, which was part of the Unified Media, the information arm of the PLO. They made films until 1982. When the Israeli army invaded Beirut, the PLO and its units had to wrap up and move elsewhere. Since the process of expulsion was rapid, a lot was left behind, including the cinematic archive, which they thought was too heavy and left it with a view to returning to it later on.

—Mohanad Yaqubi

Children Nevertheless (Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	21 min 21 s
Size: 	481 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	960x540 ~> 960x720
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 081 kb/s
BPP: 	0.238
Audio
#1:  	Arabic 2.0ch AAC LC @ 64.4 kb/s (Stereo)

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Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:Hardcoded French, English