Francesca Di Marco

Francesca Di Marco debuted as a documentary filmmaker in 2018 with "The Woman All Women Were," an award-winning film that appeared in numerous international festivals. She is committed to narrating stories that reconfigure the margins of the dominant discourse. "Who Won the War," her current project, is in fact the attempt to deconstruct the official narrative of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing written by the winners by giving voice to a survivor, and to open up a space to heal his trauma. Francesca is the author of the book "Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan." She holds a PhD in Modern History of Japan from SOAS University of London, and a Postdoc from Yale University. Her research interest is on collective and national narcissism and how it manifested in Japan through interwar totalitarianism and modern suicide. She lectured on the Asia-Pacific Wars and on History of Interwar Japan at Stanford University, the UK, and Italy.