The Movie Café - 21/10/2010

An international edition of Janice Forsyth's weekly film programme. Featuring an interview with Debs Gardner-Paterson, director of AFRICA UNITED - an exhuberant film which follows the epic journey of a group of children who cross the continent to take part in the opening ceremony of the football World Cup. We hear from the directors of the AFRICA IN MOTION Film Festival which opens in Edinburgh this evening. Glasgow-based Venezuelan filmmaker Aimara Reques reviews CARLOS, the story of Venezuelan revolutionary and terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka 'Carlos the Jackal'. We hear how National Schools Film Week introduces school pupils to European language films. And we ask whether members of a film club for people with Asperger's Syndrome identified with the lead characters in the stunning new animated film MARY AND MAX, which chronicles the correspondence between a lonely 8-year-old girl in Australia and a 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger's, who lives in New York.