深海巨兽

　　我们发推文、点赞、分享 — 但日益依赖社交媒体会带来什么后果？随着数字平台日益成为人们保持联系的重要方式，硅谷内部人士通过暴露屏幕另一侧的隐藏内容，揭示了社交媒体如何重新改写文明。

　　1934年，德国著名女导演莱尼•里芬斯塔尔（Leni Riefenstahl）受邀拍摄了《意志的胜利》。影片由纳粹构思，第三帝国出资赞助，记录了纳粹巅峰时期的会议、集会和游行盛况。为配合拍摄，帝国提供无限制的经费，一百多人的摄制组，无数的聚光灯，十六名一流摄影师、三十台 摄影机、二十二辆配备司机的汽车和身着制服的机动警官，这庞大且豪华的摄制队伍加上里芬斯塔尔天才的创造力和美学理念，为影史奉上了一部最为完美也最受争议的杰作。
　　《意志的胜利》被称为“最具权威性的宣传电影”，它荣获1935年威尼斯电影节和巴黎电影节最佳纪录片奖。

　　Ancient Worlds is about people and places, politics and economics, art and war, trade and technology, but above all it’s the story of the painful birth and difficult growth of a radical idea first tried and tested some six thousand years ago, and which we are still struggling with today; civilisation. Civilisation has not come easily; it’s something we’ve had to fight hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, and the greatest threats to it have come from our own talents for destruction. But when we’ve managed to get it right, the benefits have been enormous.
　　When we talk about the ancient world we tend to think of rare and exotic artefacts or the monumental remains of epic architecture; but these are just the empty shells that got left behind when the tide of history turned! The living creatures, the civilisations, that once inhabited these shells were rarely if ever static or stately; they were dynamic, chaotic, and always threatening to spin out of control, because civilisation is based on an improbable idea; that strangers can live and work together in dense urban settings, forging new allegiances that replace the natural ties of family, clan or tribe. It’s an idea we’re still coming to terms with today, but one of the best ways to understand the challenges that are involved is to look at how our ancestors tackled them the first time around.
　　From ancient Iraq to Imperial Rome, Ancient Worlds examines how our ancestors struggled with the levers of religion and politics, art and culture, war and diplomacy, technology and trade in order to keep the complex machinery of their civilisations turning over. Their insights and blind-spots, their breakthroughs and dead ends, their triumphs and disasters are the milestones on the long and winding road that leads directly from their ancient to our modern world.

It a documentary about how babies grow up and shows their steps of growing up to a toddler.

　　Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale
　　Documentary narrated by Kate Winslet, telling the intimate story of an emperor penguin chick's first precarious months on the ice, growing up in the world's most extreme nursery.

这部五集纪录片带领观众进入恐龙灭绝后数百万年的史前新时代——冰川时代。

　　Today, over 10% of the global population suffers from mental health problems. Three decades of collaboration between scientists and Buddhist scholars have revealed techniques that allow us to develop our mental well-being and improve the impact we have on our planet.

　　On 6 May 1945, soldiers of the 88th US Infantry Division occupied the Himmlers’ family home in Gmund on Lake Tegernsee where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, journals and photographs. The film makes use of these materials and copious archive footage to sketch the biography of SS commander Heinrich Himmler who committed suicide at the end of May 1945 by taking a cyanide capsule. How did this nationalistic lower-middle-class man become Hitler’s henchman responsible for developing and executing the strategies that led to the murder of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Communists and Romany people? Where did his ideology originate? How did he see himself and how was he perceived in private by his wife Margarete, his daughter Gudrun and his mistress Hedwig? How could the man who often referred to so-called German virtues such as order, decency and goodness also write home in the midst of the war and Holocaust: ‘I am well in spite of my heavy workload’? What was it that caused his daughter to say after a visit to Dachau concentration camp: ‘It was lovely …’ A film about the pretensions of a mass murderer and the repression of any sense of guilt.
　　Berlinale 2014