Bimo

Born in 1999 in Ténès, Algeria, Oumnia Hanader grew up in Marseille. After graduating from secondary school, she enrolled at the University of Poitiers and the Conservatoire Régional d’Art Dramatique. With a degree in Literature and Political Science, she decided to travel around France, working on film sets and in theatres as an actress. She discovered screenwriting alongside the Tribudom collective in Paris. She enrolled at the CinéFabrique in 2024 and wrote her first short fiction film, Bimo (2025), which was in the official selection of CINEF at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and the Côté court de Pantin Festival 2025. At the same time, she developed Aziz, her first short film produced with SMAC Productions, for which she was the winner of the Ateliers d’Aflam in Marseille, and then received the audience award at the Moulin d'Andé-CECI Département de l’Eure screenplay competition in 2023, the Plume de Cristal for best short film screenplay at the Valence Scenario Festival 2023, the CNC Talent Award for best short film project and the Agence du Court Métrage Award at WIPP 2023. She is also pursuing her acting career in film and has made a name for herself in the short films Fille (2023) by Lili Cazals and La Vérité (2023) by Malou Lévêque, selected at Premiers Plans in 2025, and which earned her the Best Actress Award.