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27.1.25
Monday
19:30

Full Support | Michal Cohen

Award for Best Debut Film DocAviv. 

 

The story of women's relationship with their breasts unfolds in the fitting room of a Jaffa bra shop.
With each curtain opening, a woman confronts herself in the mirror, her mood dictating the framing of her shot. While attempting to find a bra that fits, she narrates her story because the story of boobs is the story of life itself. From birth, when it gives us life to the sobering reminder of mammograms, alerting us to the fact that breasts can also take it away. In between, there is a lifelong relationship – thrilling, sexy, and funny but also messy, burdensome, sometimes threatening. It's a story that bursts out, always one step ahead of you, and even when you couldn't or wouldn't tell it, it is etched on your body.

 

Director:  Michal Cohen 



Israel 24 | 68 minutes | Hebrew, English subtitles 
 

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16.3
Monday
20:00

Illusion: The Placebo Effect and Illusions as an Active Ingredient, a meeting with Prof. Asya Rolls

The second meeting in a new series – dialogues with researchers who have written essays on various aspects of illusion in their fields of research, as appeared in the 2026 edition of ‘Poetry of Science’, a periodical published once a year concurrently with the Weizmann Institute’s annual Ofer Lider prize for encouraging creative writing among scientists award ceremony. The editor of ‘Poetry of Science’ is Idan Barir, a translator of poetry and prose from Portuguese, Arabic, English, and Turkish.


“The neural networks involved in positive expectations, those that incite a sense of hope, satisfaction, and motivation, are not limited to the mental realm. They influence the entire body, activate the immune system, and stimulate healing processes. Placebos, in this sense, serve as a portal to understanding the power of the brain to shape a physiological reality – how thought or faith can stimulate actual biological mechanisms.” (Prof. Asya Rolls)


The placebo effect is a phenomenon in which a patient receives a sham treatment, but the brain and the immune system are stimulated into performing an actual healing process. 


Prof. Asya Rolls in a dialogue with Idan Barir, on the potential of understanding the relationship between body and soul, the extent to which physical reality can be based on illusions created in the brain, and the role of faith and hope in the healing process.
Prof. Asya Rolls – Researcher at the School for Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics at Tel Aviv University’s Life Sciences Faculty.

 

Sponsored by the Berginsky Center for the Interface between Science and Humanities
 


Schedule:
16/2 Travels to the Past as Deceptive Illusion, with Prof. Avner Wishnitzer
16/3 The Placebo Effect, with Prof. Asya Rolls
18/5 The Psychedelic Renaissance, with Prof. Shaul Lev-Ran