Auberi Edler

Auberi Edler is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, based in Paris. She is known for Une pastorale américaine/An American Pastoral, Best Directing award in IDFA's International Competition 2024. Her most recent filmography includes 1968, Photographic Acts, exploring the enduring symbolism and politics captured in iconic images from that pivotal year, Clean Torture: An American Fabrication, awarded an Etoile de la SCAM in 2020, which reframes the atrocities committed during the War on Terror within a 70-year history of state-sanctioned experimentation, American Laundry, awarded an Etoile de la SCAM in 2024, set in a predominantly Latino, working-class suburb of Chicago, exploring the themes of immigrant life, labor and the pursuit of the American Dream. Her latest film, An American Pastoral, chronicles the struggle within a rural central Pennsylvanian community over the future of their public schools, where a vitriolic debate over books cloaks a more fundamental question: the future of the American secular democracy.