Auberi Edler is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Paris. Following a career with France’s largest public television network, France 2, as a war reporter, New York bureau chief, and co-director of the news department, she chose to dedicate herself fully to documentary filmmaking.
For the past 17 years, she has written and directed many documentaries, which have been distributed worldwide. Her films focus on social fractures, world politics, cinema, and photography.
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 explores the themes of immigrant life, labour, 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 American secular democracy.
An American Pastoral (2024), American Laundry (2022), Clean Torture: An American Fabrication (2019), 1968, Photographic Acts (2018), Cathy at War (2018), Jacquotte et les dockers (2018), Il était une fois... Rosetta (2015), Land of Dust (2014), Il était une fois... Le Havre (2014), Il était une fois… Une Séparation (2013), L'Équation de l'amour (2012), L'île (2011)
