Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin, A Separation, a drama that centres on a disintegrating marriage, won the top Golden Bear honour and swept the acting awards at the Berlin film festival on Saturday.

Filmmaker Ed Gass-Donnelly and actress Jill Hennessy on the dark drama, a story of crime and redemption set in a small-town Ontario.

In Unknown, Liam Neeson plays a scientist who awakens to discover his wife doesn't recognize him and his identity assumed by another. CBC's Eli Glasner reviews the Jaume Collet-Serra film.

Despite Mayor Dave Bing's polite rejections, a statue of Robocop is coming to Detroit.

Almost two years after actress Natasha Richardson died as a result of head injuries suffered in a fall at Quebec's Mont Tremblant ski resort, her widower Liam Neeson speaks out about his experience at a "Dickensian" hospital in Montreal.

William Shatner will return to Canada in March to host the 2011 Genie Awards, the annual celebration of Canadian film.

Montreal director Denis Villeneuve will be the toast of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which will celebrate the director with a retrospective in July.

Veteran U.S. actor Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in a forthcoming film about the French artist, with the project to be directed by Canada's Deepa Mehta.

China is ordering makers of films and TV shows to limit the amount of smoking depicted on-screen, the latest effort to curb rampant tobacco use in the country with the largest number of smokers in the world.

Pa Negre (Black Bread) swept Spain's top film awards Sunday, with the family drama taking nine Goya trophies, including best film.