Moroccan filmmaker and photographer Tala Hadid is bringing Bardi, a new Morocco-France-Qatar feature, to the 64th New York Film Festival, where the film is listed as a Currents Centerpiece and world premiere.
Film at Lincoln Center lists screenings on October 1, October 2 and October 4, 2026, with Q&A sessions attached to the first two screenings and the Brooklyn Academy of Music screening on October 4. The festival page identifies Hadid as the director and gives the film a 109-minute running time, with Arabic and Greek dialogue and English subtitles.
Bardi follows a group of horse-riders in central Morocco as they move through the world of Tbourida, the equestrian performance tradition rooted in martial display, horsemanship and collective ceremony. The festival description emphasizes the film’s attention to the men’s movement across Moroccan landscapes, their codes of behavior and the performative world that forms around horses, masculinity and ritual.
The film is notable not only because of its Moroccan setting, but because Hadid’s earlier work has repeatedly returned to rural Morocco, memory and community. The New York Film Festival biography notes her previous feature House in the Fields, a film closely associated with Amazigh life in Morocco’s High Atlas.
The New York screenings place Bardi within a major international festival context, bringing Moroccan rural cultural practice to a global cinema audience. Tbourida is often framed through spectacle, tourism or national ceremony; Hadid’s approach, according to the festival materials, appears to move closer to the human and emotional structures surrounding the tradition.
The film’s festival run will give critics and viewers their first extended look at how Bardi balances documentation, visual poetry and questions of heritage. It also adds to a growing body of Moroccan and Amazigh-linked cinema circulating through North American festivals in 2026.