‘Bardi’ follows an itinerant brotherhood of riders across central Morocco. The film moves between documentary and fiction and is an ode to another form of community- where the dust of the everyday lifts into ritual, and ritual into myth.
We enter a fraternity of horsemen — men and boys moving through ancient cities and vast plains — brought together by Tbourida, an ancestral equestrian practice. Through the rhythm of bodies and horses, of dust and song, the film questions contemporary ideas of masculinity and transformation.
‘Bardi’ unfolds as a vernacular epic, carried by voices bound by fraternity and performance. Here, Tbourida is not re-enactment but metamorphosis: the farmer becomes a general, the young man a prince, the worker a hero. Moving between documentary and fiction, the film composes a choral world where the dust of the everyday rises into ritual, and ritual dissolves into myth.
‘Bardi’ unfolds as a vernacular epic, carried by voices bound by fraternity and performance. Here, Tbourida is not re-enactment but metamorphosis: the farmer becomes a general, the young man a prince, the worker a hero. Moving between documentary and fiction, the film composes a choral world where the dust of the everyday rises into ritual, and ritual dissolves into myth.
