Made in/With Luxembourg

Fade to Black

Anne SIMON
Female Director 2025 18 min Luxembourg

Synopsis

A casting to find a perfect Melusina draws to its end when the film crew spot a distinct actress still waiting: it’s about time the myth of the woman with the fishtail got a facelift. But on their mission to diversify, they end up casting new spells.

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A director and producer are casting actresses for the lead role of their re-telling of Luxembourg’s founding myth: Melusina. In an honest effort to give the myth a face-lift and to break free from traditional, corseting female beauty standards, the crew embarks on a mission to diversify. They have invited a wide palette of actresses but the casting day draws to an end without a perfect match when they spot a black actress in the waiting area.

Cast/Avec

  • Céline CAMARA 
  • Sophie MOUSEL
  • Myriam MULLER 
  • Konstantin ROMMELFANGEN 
  • Esther Gaspart Michels
  • Magaly TEIXEIRA 
  • Nora ZRIKA 
  • Mayson BOSSI

Screenplay

  • Anne SIMON
  • Céline CAMARA

Cinematographer

  • Nikos Welter

Sound

  • Tom Biren

Music

  • Gregory Ney

Production

  •  AMOUR FOU Luxembourg

Anne SIMON

Anne SIMON
Anne SIMON

Luxembourg-based writer-director Anne Simon studied Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Apart from plenty of writing and directing for the national and international stage, and continuous experimentation with hybrid forms combining the digital and the live, Simon has written and directed the short-film D. – A Reproduction (Red Lion) and assured the actors’ direction in the documentary-fiction Ashcan: the Secret Prison (Nowhere Land Productions). After her second short film Fade To Black (Amour Fou), she is currently writing her first full length fiction

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