In 2005 Hadid received her MFA in Film Directing from Columbia. Her prize-winning film, “Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan,” was screened at numerous film festivals and won awards including a Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2006 and the Panorama Best Short Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006. She was a fellow of the Sundance Institute writers' and directors' lab 2009, and her work has also screened at, among other venues, the MoMA in New York City, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C, L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Seville Biennale in Spain, Oxford University, and the Photographer’s Gallery in London. In 2014 Hadid completed work on Itarr el Layl “The Narrow Frame of Midnight”, which won best film and critics prize at the 2015 Tangier Film Festival.