[8] In 2001 she directed Windsleepers, a film set in St Petersburg, Russia, with poets Genya Turovskaya[9] and Vladimir Kucheriavkin.

[26] In 2010/2011 Hadid worked on an independent project entitled Heterotopia, a series of photographs documenting life in a New York City brothel.

In 2012 she was awarded the Peter S Reed Foundation Arts grant[27] in support of her documentary film work in Morocco.

[28] In 2014 Hadid completed work on Itarr el Layl (The Narrow Frame of Midnight), a feature film about a man in search of his missing brother.

[35] In September 2015, Hadid's project House in the Fields was selected to screen as a work-in-progress at the 72nd Venice Biennale International Film Festival where it was awarded two prizes.

[42] In 2019 Hadid photographed and produced the installation project Floodplain based on Tablet XI of Gilgamesh for the 2019 Rabat Biennale.